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My money is on this kind of 'Sovereign alignment' being the legal basis for more and more of UK-EU relations, as it is shown to work in practice in zones like this and creates a body of businesses who are skilled at the process and invested in it.

Kristersson hade egentligen samma politisk som Reinfeldt. Det enda som förändrades efter R var siffrorna i riksdagen som man behövdes för att få regera. Då rök värderingarna och anständigheten för att behålla makten.

A rare Sean Bean film where he only gets a little death

An illustration representing "The Gout" as a swollen foot with a small but vicious creature biting into the top of it, claws extended and flames shooting from its nostrils. Superimposed on top is a photograph of the speaker, Dorian Haskard.

How did a plant poison become one of medicine’s oldest drugs... and why did plants make it in the first place?

Join Professor Dorian Haskard to discover how the evolutionary plant-insect arms race led to a unique treatment for gout.

26 March, 6-8pm at the Linnean Society.

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Wow, nice alttext!

Like the bit in Syriana when George Clooney realises the guy doesn't speak Farsi

(low birthrates are in many ways a symbolic cultural stand in for the global turn away from expansion and abundance for the first time in 300 years)

Yes, I think we've been fooled by some idea of a grand procession of hegemony from Habsburg Germany, to Spain/Portugal to France, to Britain to US, and we expect a new great power to step forward. Instead we have an age of general shrinkage and lessening of global power projection.

Yes that could literally happen tomorrow.

Regarding the middle east, I think a lot of what we're seeing is Saudi and Israel leadership trying to create alliances to maintain their power as US backs away from the region. But they themselves are also unstable regimes.

(At some point we'll see the equivalent of Russia abandoning Armenia to invasion, but happening to a supposed US ally or tributary.)

If we're thinking in terms of responses to steppe raiding, there were lots of political entities who reacted by paying tribute or becoming local enforcers for the khans. A major difference is that the US regime is way less trustworthy than the khans and can't offer stability for those who submit.

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I think this is a really interesting thread discussing new tools for coding and how their use happens above all in the context of social expectations and norms.

Colin Ward also helped make adventure playgrounds a thing iirc

I think this is very interesting, thank you. It makes me think the best outcome for these new coding tools is they act like an exoskeleton or a forklift truck. Being forklift certified is socially cool and does involve friction even if it doesn't use as many muscles as unassisted warehouse work.

We've already got a Great Firewall of China. Feels like others will need to also start creating similar choke points.

How do you think this worked in the days of Camp David Accords? Was this external absence of enemies one of the things that caused an intensification of internal occupation?

Whoa like Peter the great

Also I will keep on making long historical replies on your posts now I know that's ok :)

Yes, I sketched a plan for a series called 'The Anarchist History of Everything.' History with a riotous perspective about all times, and also history of forgotten social movement and moments. As soon as I inherit Downton Abbey I'll carry out my plan.

That thing about the politics of post war is such a major one, and your point about why the compromise came about was so important. There were so many social movements and tiny uprisings that led to policy being enacted. It wasn't nice Mr liberal Beveridge who made it happen.

Hurra!

I want to believe that he's hated him for 25 years and this was finally the day.

My arm wiping small bits of salad off a kitchen surface

My hand wiping down a wooden counter top

In Use of Weapons the protagonist asks a member of The Culture why anyone is still wiping down the tables in a post-scarcity society. And the answer is, "well life can be complicated, but when I wipe a table, look. It's clean."

I have an endless store of this kind of stuff and it makes me so angry lol

All we will get officially is how everyone loved Winston Churchill and had a stiff upper lip and the Blitz spirit.

Nowadays people sheltering in the Underground has become part of official patriotic history, but the chained Underground had to be broken open by anarchists first!

”1,500 people took over flats in [the wealthiest parts of London]"

We used to be a country, a real country.

In August 1946, tens of thousands of people, mainly ex-servicemen and their families, moved into empty military camps around Britain. Over the course of the occupations, more than 45,000 people were involved in the takeover of most of the military camps in Britain.2 By early September the squattings had spread to hotels and flats. The episode achieved its greatest fame in the ‘Great Sunday Squat’ on 8 September, when around 1,500 people took over flats in Kensington, Pimlico and St John’s Wood.3 The story dominated the newsreels and newspapers for much of August and September 1946. Thousands of squatters stayed on in the camps for years afterwards, but the squatters’ movement disappeared from public view as quickly as it had emerged