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Wow. Hard enough to find common ground in a conflict this complex, but congrats.

I think you’ve managed to unite every decent person in the sentiment that you are straight concentrated shite and the less people hear from you, the better off they are.

Go die.

Not that I am one, but I believe true libertarians should be rabidly pro anti-trust legislation, letting corporations fail, and a 100% inheritance tax above a threshold.

This is a huge fucking problem, one that’s about 100x as severe if you’re hearing this happen the first time.

While fighting forces normally have their advantages/disadvantages compared to their opponents, food abundance or scarcity can make a strategic difference. See the psychological effect of the USN ice cream ship in WW2, listen to Ryan McBeth comparing his rations to what his Egyptian comrades called “army meat”…

Hell, in my own personal experience in Basic Training (had an award-winning kitchen) vs NCO school (food supply didn’t work out, had to bring your own breakfast before the march), basic supply can be the difference between enthusiastic service and a refusal to train. And this was the same unit.

The magnitude of the US’ fuckup in this war (the whole war tbh) has still not become fully perceivable. History books will be talking about this in the tone of “as devastating Vietnam was for US foreign policy, the coffin nails hammered in in 2026 became the harbingers of the US empire’s accellerated fall”… or sth like that.

I still get flashbacks…

I assess it’s engagement bait. Our having read much of it, despite none of it having any discernable value at all, was apparently the point. I can’t see this drivel passing any first inspection by peers in the field…

Looks like a whole bunch of nonsense by and for people with no understanding of the purpose or even the structure of academic research. The author is a “Bachelor of Business Administration” with an apparent penchant for arcane scientific-sounding babble.

Read any proper publication, and you’ll see every word and thought thoroughly explained or reduced to common (if perhaps field-specific) knowledge. The abstract is short enough to give a cursory overview, and doesn’t dump a page’s worth of the author’s favourite sciency-sounding words and symbols.

Here’s an example (supposed to be without a paywall): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641399.3641443

Note the format, length, and wording of the abstract, the authors’ credentials (both field-relevant and at least graduate-level), the conciseness of the discussion, etc.

Compare this to Watanabe’s efforts to convince you (and whoever else reads his stuff) that he’s smart. Very, very smart. Way smarter than you. Way smarter than the people who don’t realise his smartness. The least he expects of you is unearned respect, but I’m willing to bet he’s monetising this.

If this was the 00s, he’d probably have one of these websites (PSA: don’t download or install anything):

Kryptochef: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613200332/http://kryptochef.net/index2e.htm

Timecube: https://web.archive.org/web/20100127184015/http://www.timecube.com/

Finnish rap slaps. Here’s a classic: youtu.be/DsfSLemDYQg

The PM dying. They’ve interrupted Duck Tales for that shit, the bastards!

Your point is valid but less relevant. Lithium is an alkali metal found in different sources than rare earths, with Australia and South America producing the most.

Rare earths are expensive to refine which is why western mines and refineries have been outcompeted by China. If we were to subsidise local production we’d have an abundance, e.g. from Scandinavia.

Why is it brilliant? His narrative style captured my attention in a way that left me wanting more. It’s also solid in terms of sourcing and correctness.

As for the merits/demerits of podcasts vs literature, it’s just different media for different use cases. He also wrote a book on Lafayette and his transcripts are available if reading is more your jam.

There are 10 chapters iirc, each except one covering a single revolution in ever-growing detail. The chapter on 1848 covers multiple.

It starts out with the English Revolution in less than 20 episodes and ends with the Russian Revolution exceeding 100.

It’s brilliant. Gotta relisten again. I can also recommend The History of Rome by him.

Swiss here

fwiw, “section” means platoon in French.

it’s not that rare to get a male-only platoon, a company on the other hand…