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throawaywpgon Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction

There used to be a name for this. "Everyone is different." How people have forgotten this basic fact is beyond me.

throawaywpgon Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction

https://www.amazon.ca/Peasants-Knights-Heretics-R-Hilton/dp/...

Highly recommend this book on the subject.

throawaywpgon The case against social media is stronger than you think

acceleration? as in the literal speed at which we translate information through language?

throawaywpgon Children and young people's reading in 2025

IM-possible!

throawaywpgon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

All the conspiracy theorizing is silly, imo. This is just another shot fired in the long history of American assassination. Charlie Kirk should be proud. The is the America he asked for. And this may be the beginning of a very violent period in American politics.

throawaywpgon North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

how many NK defectors support the narrative of the NK government? How many corroborate the western reports?

throawaywpgon North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

The USA would never have a foreign national executed over a sign...

throawaywpgon The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

supporting Ukraine has always been in America's interests. How embarassing it must be for Trump to be publicly humiliated by Putin over a cease fire.

throawaywpgon From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

its usually from shoplifting

throawaywpgon From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

I spoke with Japanese people on the subway. They were very friendly to this gaijin.

throawaywpgon Children and young people's reading in 2025

I said girls loved Harry Potter and LOTR. Girls forced me to perform the Harry Potter theme in band class because I was the only one good enough to play it! And its wasn't my friends. It was the entire class.

throawaywpgon Children and young people's reading in 2025

I was alive in that time and girls did not like those books, at all (of course WOMEN may be a different story). They liked Harry Potter, and LOTR after the movies came out because Orlando Bloom.

throawaywpgon Children and young people's reading in 2025

im getting ready for a life of video gaming and living on a beach in a 3rd world country...

throawaywpgon Australia to force porn websites to check users' ages under new internet rules

Porn addiction (not the porn industry) ruins lives. It's all going to come out in the next 10-20 years and porn is going to go the way of smoking.

throawaywpgon Majority in EU's biggest states believes bloc 'sold out' in US tariff deal

Great. Now where am I going to move to avoid US food???

throawaywpgon Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

It's been a major trading hub for over 6000 years, plus the red river valley is extremely fertile

throawaywpgon Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

There's no counterpart for Winnipeg in Europe. The comparable are Novosibirsk and Ulan Bataar.

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

One wonders what to do, when's One's subjects are wont to misbehave so?

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

Some Indians benefitted, but the vast majority suffered.

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

King Charles holds the title of King of Canada!

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

Those are the titles bestowed upon him by the UK. But here is the full titles given to him by all entities (including Canada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_...

In Masai he's known as "The Helper of the Cows" (literally: he whom the cows love so much they call for him when they are in times of distress)

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

with another several mid-sized countries closely connected to it

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

There's no realistic way for the UK or anyone else to guarantee Hong Kong political freedom short of war with China.

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

improvements to India? Improvements to Britannia you mean!

throawaywpgon When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

Hmmm. Canada, NZ, Australia and even SA are all pretty darn "British," to this Commonwealth citizen.

throawaywpgon How well does the money laundering control system work?

Canada's financial & political system are due for a reckoning in the next 10-20 years

throawaywpgon Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

The line was to buy Amazon as it was undervalued a la IBM or Apple based on its cloud computing capabilities relative to the future (projected) needs of AI.

throawaywpgon Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms

this guy gets it. The US is literally creating the market for their own replacement(s)!

throawaywpgon American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate

id also guess that the average millennial and gen z have had a sedentary lifestyle for longer than the other age cohorts