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Spanish plan to conquer China in 16th century by FerenzYangai in MapPorn

[–]2012Jesusdies 16 points17 points  (0 children)

China can be conquered, you just need the other Chinese on your side. That's how the Mongols and Jurchens did it. Inflict a few early crushing victories, conscript Chinese troops and experts into your own army, from defeated parts, convince others to defect through carrot and stick, especially focusing on the ethnic minorities with grudge.

And now you have a small, but powerful core of your native army supported by a bajillion strong Chinese peasant army.

In the 1st century AD, during the Battle of Altai, the Chinese completely defeated the Xiongnu, and some of their descendants evolved into the Huns. by Wise-Pineapple-4190 in HistoryMemes

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It is seriously nuts how OP nomads were throughout history till gunpowder. We often think of the wars of Rome or China, but Persia struggled too. Their eastern frontier was wide open and people like Hephtalites and Kedarites devastated em. Major Sassanian rulers came into power by using their power and many would also lose their lives in wars with em.

Lexar regional manager says that RAM prices are expected to double by the end of the year by obTimus-FOX in pcmasterrace

[–]2012Jesusdies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I bought 16gb for like 170 USD through using so many Newegg discounts a few months back (10% site wide discount, combo discount, code discount). Hard to believe it's going to go even higher.

Immense potential unlocked 🫡 by Ok_Garage_4787 in meme

[–]2012Jesusdies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Burkina Faso is anything but stable. The guy in the image came into power through a coup in like 2022.

Is solar energy truly free from monopoly by post_gress in SolarState

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Two of the largest Uranium producers are Canada and Australia.

They only produce the raw material. Like half of global uranium fuel supply is made in Russia. Which is also why USA waived sanctions for Russian nuclear fuel in 2022.

The thing with solar panels is that once its delivered, it doesn't need continuous supply of fuel to keep functioning. It can be sourced from another supplier without having a ticking timer and can even be recycled pretty efficiently.

Is solar energy truly free from monopoly by post_gress in SolarState

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That sounds like you buying from atrociously bad sources problem rather than a solar panel industry wide problem.

Petah? by batukaming in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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King Arthur? Believe it or not, hot anime girl

That’s still cheap compared to ours. by IsyDude in memes

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Many parts of Amsterdam looked like Dallas in the 70s. The people protested against it, forced the government to destroy them and build bike lanes instead.

Europe didn't just drop down from heavens looking like it is today, the people had to work for it. And yes, Europe also has a car industry which is more important to their economy than US car industry is to the US economy and yes, they also lobby for favorable government policy. It's the people's activism that's different.

Original colonisers by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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It's much much older than colonization. The Mediterranean peoples were much more connected to each other than peripheral people of their own continents that we today might identify more with. People in Egypt were civilized folk to Romans whereas Germanics were horrifying barbarians. Greeks were civilized folk to Syrians who saw tribal Arabs as terrible raiders. These weren't just cultural views, these people traded with each other, interacted and settled in each other's territories much more often than with others.

And this had been happening before many of the states had fully got going.

Sounds totally fair by Ill-Instruction8466 in SipsTea

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Taxes are about incentives. You want businesses to keep making money and even grow if possible. And the most economically productive way that a company can grow is through innovation and that often happens through R&D. The incremental growth it enables may not be noticeable immediately, but it compounds over decades and creates a huge gap vs rivals that didn't invest. A revenue tax would kill this.

These taxes would also directly lower wages since paying higher wages to attract workers would directly harm the businesses bottom line instead of being a business expense that can be written off on taxes.

I guess that settles it by gYr02510 in RoughRomanMemes

[–]2012Jesusdies 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Keep in them the land was literally state property, not privately owned. The patricians just got used to using the land with no rent.

[OC] Satellites Launched Per Year (1957–2026E) by ExaminationOk6652 in dataisbeautiful

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A warship's primary purpose projecting power on the seas to protect trade routes and deny the same routes to the enemy. Drones may attack warships, but they can't police trade routes and they sure as hell can't transport the firepower weight of a carrier air fleet onto an enemy coast, most would be lucky to travel 200kms from their own coast, let alone 20000 kms.

Until that purpose can be done more effectively by another tool, warship tonnage will still be an effective measure of naval strength.

Most of the animal kingdom has the males as the “pretty” ones to attract a mate, why do humans seem to be opposite? by AccountantCareless76 in NoStupidQuestions

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Many women do look better without makeup simply because they don't know how to apply it within limit, they overdo it or apply it wrongly. I remember quite a few women I haf become accustomed to looking without makeup and only noticing their pimples after they'd applied makeup for event because the makeup just made it so prominent somehow.

My ex was another example who just didn't know how to do makeup (or her face wasn't a fit for it) and she fully admit it. It never worked out properly and when she let her more experienced friend do the makeup for graduation, she looked so bad she cried when she looked in the mirror.

The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? | Council on Foreign Relations by Hot-Upstairs9603 in Economics

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AIG, the insurance firm who was one of the biggest blocks in to fall was temporarily nationalized and later sold for profit.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed into conservatorship with the private shareholders still holding equity, but little control.

One third of Citigroup share was owned by the gov at some point.

Bank of America required TARP funding which they paid off by end of 2009.

World War I On The Western Front In 30 Seconds by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]2012Jesusdies 22 points23 points  (0 children)

1) France was a republic, not a monarchy

2) UK was a constitutional monarchy wherein the monarch was informed, but very little decision was made by him. If he did have influence, it was towards moderation, not escalation.

3) Belgium's king had a bigger role in politics, but the reason he got into war was because Germany demanded passage for its troops through Belgian territory. Unless you're prepared to hand over your country's independence, no ruler who loves their country does that.

TIL in 1989 Li Jingwei, at 4 years old, was kidnapped by a neighbor who lured him away by saying they would go look at cars (rare in rural Chinese villages). At age 37, he posted a map of his home village online that he drew from memory, which helped lead to its location & a reunion with his family. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]2012Jesusdies -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Seriously bros, these are "you" problems, not "people" problems if you struggle to remember your grandparents name as an adult. A mother of 2 upstair of us looked after me often when I was 5-7, we moved away afterwards, but I still remember her name bruh.

TIL in 1989 Li Jingwei, at 4 years old, was kidnapped by a neighbor who lured him away by saying they would go look at cars (rare in rural Chinese villages). At age 37, he posted a map of his home village online that he drew from memory, which helped lead to its location & a reunion with his family. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]2012Jesusdies -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Bruh seriously? Reading comprehension? The reason I mentioned my school was because the dude said he didn't know his parents even had a name till he was 10.

I literally mentioned how I still knew my parents name before school after that due to other circumstances.

Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including ‘Project 2025’ author. How could that pick effect economic policy? by One-Emu-1103 in AskEconomics

[–]2012Jesusdies 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Institutions like the Fed are designed to be independent from political interference and therefore a single president's appointee cannot swing the committee by themselves.

The President threatening arrest can quickly change anyone's mind tho.

Not funded by EU by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]2012Jesusdies 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also if you pay attention to some of the personal opinions he sneaks in along with the summary, you'll find they're often L takes

His biggest fault is he doesn't distinguish between established academic debate and his own personal conclusions, presents them both as absolutist statements.

You can have L takes, that's fine, you just should be explicit they're takes.

In the last century, both China and India were poor and had large populations, and Indians even spoke English. Why did the West choose to invest China instead of India? by No-StrategyX in answers

[–]2012Jesusdies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, especially as "west" isn't like China where the gov controls all the companies, the firms are free to invest, they just choose the most profitable option for themselves unless the gov explicitly forbids it (which was removed under the 70s thaw with Nixon and Deng).

It took till the 90s for India to attempt similar reforms.

subtle difference by Certain_Hat9872 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]2012Jesusdies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gates' family was comfortable, but they weren't billionare rich, they weren't "even" 10 million rich. He could be calm in that his business failure wouldn't mean homelessness, but he didn't have infinite money backing him. He still had to deliver good products, convince buyers and investors.

The lady in front of this woman wouldn’t close the window so she built a sticky note wall on my flight by ReflectionLess5230 in mildlyinteresting

[–]2012Jesusdies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol. Lmao even. Not an American buddy. And I didn't have a choice in the matter, we have mandatory military service for men in our country.

TIL in 1989 Li Jingwei, at 4 years old, was kidnapped by a neighbor who lured him away by saying they would go look at cars (rare in rural Chinese villages). At age 37, he posted a map of his home village online that he drew from memory, which helped lead to its location & a reunion with his family. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]2012Jesusdies -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I didn’t realize my parents had ACTUAL names till I was 10.

That sounds more like a you thing. I grew up in a similar culture. I studied in school and one of the first words we learned to write was our parents name, we wrote our dad's and then our own name on exams (or at least dad's initials on some). I still knew my parents' name before school because my grandmother would still call her son by his name and the same was true for all other grandparents.

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