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10 year old FF: "If I had been at the siege of Przyml it wouldn't have gone down the way it did"
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Apr 5, 2024 02:08
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ff's not-political-enough grandpa
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Apr 5, 2024 02:11
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Delta-Wye posted:ff's not-political-enough grandpa 
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Delta-Wye posted:ff's not-political-enough grandpa Megamissen posted:reminder that frosted flakes childhood dream was to get a posthumous victoria cross Well maybe if I had a grandfather who was more of a role model...
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Yellen faces tough road on China's vast overproduction problemquote:U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in China's southern factory hub of Guangzhou on Thursday with a tough message to Chinese officials: you're producing too much of everything, especially clean energy goods, and the world can't absorb it. quote:Yellen will seek to convey her view that the excess production is unhealthy for China and that there is a growing drumbeat of concern about it in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Mexico and other major economies. quote:But she said the Biden administration was determined to develop American supply chains in EVs, solar power and other clean energy goods with investment tax credits and would not "rule out other possible ways in which we would protect them". quote:The results of China's prior investment binges are staggering. quote:The situation in China's solar panel sector may be worse, where overproduction pushed prices down 42% last year to levels 60% below the cost of comparable U.S.-made products. Major Chinese producers are continuing to build factories, backed by provincial and local subsidies. planned economy OP, pls nerf.
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Apr 5, 2024 03:00
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from the brain geniuses that brought you "russia is running it's economy too hot" comes "china is outproducing us; we can't compete... and that's bad for them." i love the subtle and not-subtle word choices for enemy epithets to make good things seem bad. a "flood" of goods. a "binge" of investment in productive capacity
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Apr 5, 2024 03:03
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Well maybe if I had a grandfather who was more of a role model... k, I'll bite ff, which handlebar mustached pith helmeted mil hist icon do you wish had been you peepaw?
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Apr 5, 2024 03:09
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BearsBearsBears posted:Yellen faces tough road on China's vast overproduction problem https://twitter.com/dril/status/432616623225049088
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I wasn't expecting to post another dril tweet in the thread today but that's such loser poo poo
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Apr 5, 2024 03:14
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The Voice of Labor posted:k, I'll bite ff, which handlebar mustached pith helmeted mil hist icon do you wish had been you peepaw? Mortimer Wheeler
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Apr 5, 2024 03:19
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BearsBearsBears posted:Yellen faces tough road on China's vast overproduction problem gradenko_2000 posted:Victoria 3 ftw
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Apr 5, 2024 03:25
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lol the crisis of having too much stuff compared to the beautiful clean asceticism of inadequate capacity jit.
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Apr 5, 2024 03:26
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Somebody send loser Yellen to CPC Party school and teach her a few days of Marxist economic clockwork orange style.
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Apr 5, 2024 03:34
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Producing so much that your rivals reflexively close all their factories, export energy for cash to buy goods, while engaged in expansionist wars with their dwindling reserves. That sounds like some hacky mapgame strat that would never work irl.
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Apr 5, 2024 03:40
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Mortimer Wheeler I see you've put some thought into this
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Apr 5, 2024 04:01
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Wow, if only the "free world" had powerful, large scale organizations with control of massive amounts of land and wealth that could make changes to the legal and social structures of those lands that are inadequate in the face of another, different set of legal and social structures enacted by a different powerful, large scale organization with control of a massive amount of land and wealth. Alas, no such things exist and change is impossible.
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Apr 5, 2024 04:50
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the geopolitical rival we have been saber rattling against for decades has built up the industrial capacity to make too many vehicles. those clods those absolute imbeciles what do you need to make that many vehicles for?
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Apr 5, 2024 05:18
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quote:China by the end of 2022 had the capacity to produce 43 million vehicles annually ... this translates to excess auto production capacity of ... roughly two-thirds of North American auto output in 2022. extremely foreboding lol
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Apr 5, 2024 05:23
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Wait, who is the one with regrets in this scenario? He could have made a difference at Kapyong. that's just another reason it's good he didn't
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Apr 5, 2024 05:33
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what if car prices started going down from the extra supply? the horror, the absolute horror. All this careful work to make sure that advancing technology never lets car prices fall ruined by the perfidious orient.
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Apr 5, 2024 05:33
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FuzzySlippers posted:what if car prices started going down from the extra supply? the horror, the absolute horror. All this careful work to make sure that advancing technology never lets car prices fall ruined by the perfidious orient. who knew cars without ICEs and a ton of auxiliary systems supporting said ICE are pretty easy to make
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http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm posted:By the time World War II began to rear its ugly head (formally in 1939 in Poland, informally in China in 1937), America had been in the grips of the Great Depression for a decade, give or take. The net effect of the Depression was to introduce a lot of 'slack' into the U.S. economy. Many U.S. workers were either unemployed (10 million in 1939) or underemployed, and our industrial base as a whole had far more capacity than was needed at the time. In economic terms, our 'Capacity Utilization' (CapU), was pretty darn low. To an outside culture, particularly a militaristic one such as Japan's, America certainly might have appeared to be 'soft' and unprepared for a major war. Further, Japan's successes in fighting far larger opponents (Russia in the early 1900's, and China in the 1930's) and the fact that Japan's own economy was practically 'superheating' (mostly as the result of unhealthy levels of military spending -- 28% of national income in 1937) probably filled the Japanese with a misplaced sense of economic and military superiority over their large overseas foe. However, a dispassionate observer would also note a few important facts. America, even in the midst of seemingly interminable economic doldrums, still had: Unrelated, just posting some milhist stuff that's definitely still true about any potential wars in the Pacific Crazycryodude has issued a correction as of 07:36 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Apr 5, 2024 05:50
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Crazycryodude posted:Unrelated, just posting some milhist stuff that's definitely still true about any potential wars in the Pacific I'd say this is a preview but the us can't hope to match japan's naval output from 1945 
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BearsBearsBears posted:The situation in China's solar panel sector may be worse, where overproduction pushed prices down 42% last year to levels 60% below the cost of comparable U.S.-made products. Major Chinese producers are continuing to build factories, backed by provincial and local subsidies. You know, I'm not convinced 60% below US prices and sinking is unsustainable if you have deflating housing and food costs and those panels actually produce energy.
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Apr 5, 2024 08:59
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genericnick posted:You know, I'm not convinced 60% below US prices and sinking is unsustainable if you have deflating housing and food costs and those panels actually produce energy. Low housing and food costs are why they're 60% below US prices, no? low cost of living = low price of labor = cheap goods that dominate the market
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Apr 5, 2024 09:17
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OutsideAngel posted:Low housing and food costs are why they're 60% below US prices, no? Not really, I don't think. If you manufacture a lot and build a lot of modern factories you'll get really good at that. I suspect that's the main thing. New production methods pushing down the labor hours needed.
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Apr 5, 2024 09:19
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genericnick posted:You know, I'm not convinced 60% below US prices and sinking is unsustainable if you have deflating housing and food costs and those panels actually produce energy. efficiency = overproduction best neolib brains
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Apr 5, 2024 09:48
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Neolibs: We must encourage the most efficient allocation of resources and investment into the development of clean green tech to meet growing energy demands in a sustainable way. Such investment will drive down the costs at scale and provide affordable access to everyone, will Level Up our communities, secure employment for millions and skill up the labour force so we can Build Back Better. China: like this? Neolibs: no, you are putting us out of business. China: but don't you believe in competition as the best way to determine the most efficient allocation of resources? Neolibs: only when measured by rate of profit, heretic. China: but doesn't your own economic theory suggest that profitability tends to zero given a highly competitive industry anyway? Neolibs: YOU ARE SANCTIONED
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Apr 5, 2024 10:06
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china is breaking the rules by kicking our asses too hard, and we'd like to speak to their manager
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Apr 5, 2024 10:15
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Megamissen posted:reminder that frosted flakes childhood dream was to get a posthumous victoria cross Lol
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You need electricity to make solar panels, China has cheap electricity. Solar panels will bring growth to the far remote parts of global south because you don't need to build power grid to there anyway. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 10:24 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Mortimer Wheeler lmao I love that you had this ready to go
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The Voice of Labor posted:I see you've put some thought into this Forseti posted:lmao I love that you had this ready to go  "For conspicuous gallantry and initiative. While making a reconnaissance he saw two enemy field guns limbered up without horses within 300 yards of the outpost line. He returned for two six-horse teams, and under heavy fire, in full view of the enemy, successfully brought back both guns to his battery position and turned them on the enemy. He did fine work."   "In 1936, Wheeler embarked on a visit to the Near East, sailing from Marseilles to Port Said, where he visited the Old Kingdom tombs of Sakkara. From there he went via Sinai to Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. During this trip, he visited various archaeological projects, but was dismayed by the quality of their excavations; in particular, he noted that the American-run excavation at Tel Megiddo was adopting standards that had been rejected in Britain twenty-five years previously. He was away for six weeks, and upon his return to Europe discovered that his wife Tessa had died of a pulmonary embolism after a minor operation on her toe. According to Tessa's biographer, for Wheeler this discovery was "the peak of mental misery, and marked the end of his ability to feel a certain kind of love". That winter, his father also died." "Serving with the Eighth Army, Wheeler was present in North Africa when the Axis armies pushed the Allies back to El Alamein. He was also part of the Allied counter-push, taking part in the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance on Axis-held Tripoli. On the way he became concerned that the archaeological sites of North Africa were being threatened both by the fighting and the occupying forces. After the British secured control of Libya, Wheeler visited Tripoli and Leptis Magna, where he found that Roman remains had been damaged and vandalised by British troops; he brought about reforms to prevent this, lecturing to the troops on the importance of preserving archaeology, making many monuments out-of-bounds, and ensuring that the Royal Air Force changed its plans to construct a radar station in the midst of a Roman settlement. Aware that the British were planning to invade and occupy the Italian island of Sicily, he insisted that measures be introduced to preserve the historic and archaeological monuments on the island."  "Promoted to the acting rank of brigadier on 1 May 1943, after the German surrender in North Africa, Wheeler was sent to Algiers where he was part of the staff committee planning the invasion of Italy. There, he learned that the India Office had requested that the army relieve him of his duties to permit him to be appointed Director General of Archaeology in India. Although he had never been to the country, he agreed that he would take the job on the condition that he be permitted to take part in the invasion of Italy first. As intended, Wheeler and his 12th Anti-Aircraft Brigade then took part in the invasion of Sicily and then mainland Italy, where they were ordered to use their anti-aircraft guns to protect the British 10th Corps. As the Allies advanced north through Italy, Wheeler spent time in Naples and then Capri, where he met various aristocrats who had anti-fascist sympathies."
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Admittedly, Combat Archeologist is the peak male fantasy. For further evidence, see Daniel Jackson from SG-1.
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I wonder how much Western military planning is subconsciously based on uncovering ancient super weapons.
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Bar Crow posted:I wonder how much Western military planning is subconsciously based on uncovering ancient super weapons. Anywhere between 2-10%
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FF fantasizing about going to the Middle East and finding out his wife died when he comes back.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:
quote:Wheeler expressed the view that he was "the least political of mortals".[175] Despite not taking a strong interest in politics, Wheeler was described by his biographer as "a natural conservative"; for instance, during his youth he was strongly critical of the Suffragettes and their cause of greater legal rights for women.[272] Checks out
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Slavvy posted:Checks out His love of archeology and artillery wasn't pure enough, and he filled in the gaps with women. Many such cases. I read Still Digging and Adventure in Archaeology when I was little, I'm assuming those parts were left out.
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