Ariel Ron

Energy folks, even if improved large batteries provide enough buffering for wind + solar to provide firm power, what are the options for an electrostate to strategically stockpile energy?

Question for Russian historians: how did Napoleon’s army interact with Russian peasants during its invasion? How did Russian nobles and czarist officials react?

👇🎯 Reporting large nominal numbers without relevant denominators is journalistic malpractice.

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At the moment I’m working on the logistics of the war itself, which are dominated in a sense by the problem of feeding horses, and I’m hoping to carry that into the story of US army winter campaigns on the plains. Also starting to think about what happened to the hay acreage when autos came in.

Thanks for reading and for this nice thread. I’d be glad to hear more of what you’re thinking about grass culture.

Ok I get it now

What does this mean? Can you explain a little?

Found some change I’m not sure where from. Taiwan?

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Looks interesting!

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Sounds good

Yes, although I'm still stuck in the Civil War and haven't really gotten as far as the 20s yet, but my sense is that's the key decade

US prices for horses plummeted after World War I. The bottom falls out in 1921.

Warren and Pearson, The Agricultural Situation (1924)

supposedly this states and municipalities: "laboratories of democracy," "competitive growth liberalism," etc.

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On ResearchGate. An article by me on, hay being the most important harvest of the year, a neglected subject: 19th-century productivity of haylands in the Netherlands.

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Braudelian: thorough quantification plus extensive use of ego-docs.

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I once processed records at NARA in Ft Worth - Individuals petitioned for access to their money or to sell their land & often would be told no. The trustee knew better. It was very enlightening.

"doesn't need such nice furniture" or "almost as smart as a white man"

Looking forward to reading this!

does it matter if you reconcile opposing positions dialectically on a higher plane or categorically on a common basis?

is this available?

Maureen, what happened to those acres? My intuition is they went into feed for meat and dairy production. Correct?

Strange update: actual army spending on forage in 1850 was $1 million, which as a share of GDP is exactly equal to DoD spending on fuel in 2022

*dispossession and public finance!

Emilie Connolly's book about native dispossession and public is coming out next week. She's not on here to be embarrassed by me saying this is the proverbial "highly anticipated" book but at it is, at least by me.

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“We believe that the complete, uncensored stories of the past must be told”

Good statement from Alliance for Texas History

www.alliancefortexashistory.org/taking-a-stand

The only time Karl Marx and JE Caribes agreed in real time

I’ve spent a lot of time reading broadly Marxist critiques. It’s very good at critique! But the positive side is distinctly missing and there’s not nearly enough serious reflection on why the actual communist governments went so wrong.

Fair enough!

a lot of this looks interesting but very Marxian and, at least in my experience, that has been a fruitful vantage for recognizing and analyzing discipline in capitalism but not for thinking about it beyond that

the question is whether identity as a motivation can be generalized to all essential jobs in a way that doesn't foster invidious comparisons and/or a sclerotic society of crystallized occupational categories, because down that path lies something like a caste system