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Indianapolis has the most anal airport security in the world lol.
becoming productive is like putting on those “they live” glasses and realizing everything sucks
CFR podcast just referred to him as “Paul Manafart” and I can’t stop giggling
@ghost_bird Amaroq is great! Exactly what I was looking for.
@ghost_bird Yeah, my main issue is that it wipes your draft if you "tab out" of the app. I'll try these, thank you!
@caillou I have done that, but there are several annoying properties -- drafts get erased if you "tab out" of the app, you lose your scroll position in your current view, etc. Actually those are the two main big ones.
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Every restaurant should be legally required to serve non-iceberg side salads. This is common sense, people.
A very interesting (and pretty long) account of the forces behind China's delay in achieving modernity.
It is in need of editing, and in need of more editing the further you get, but the analysis is convincing and pretty clear, and has many curious asides, such as the adventures of young Herbert Hoover in Qing China.
I had a pretty clear idea already why Japan had a Meiji restoration and China didn't have an equivalent, but this text draws the lines further back and makes a better documented case than just "the central administration was too strong and too weak at the same time".
I now have a better understanding of the forces behind the Taiping Rebellion and a better idea of why the CCP praises it. And while I still think the Chinese Revolution in 1911 was a huge mistake, I'm less sure that is was avoidable, or that Japan would have wrecked China any less without it.
Almost every section of the article makes me think a whole bunch of what-ifs.
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/07/why-was-the-20th-century-not-a-chinese-century-an-outtake-from-slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-long.html
https://identi.ca/glynmoody/note/zn2a3KTVQg-F-uRjbq_Xdw
It is in need of editing, and in need of more editing the further you get, but the analysis is convincing and pretty clear, and has many curious asides, such as the adventures of young Herbert Hoover in Qing China.
I had a pretty clear idea already why Japan had a Meiji restoration and China didn't have an equivalent, but this text draws the lines further back and makes a better documented case than just "the central administration was too strong and too weak at the same time".
I now have a better understanding of the forces behind the Taiping Rebellion and a better idea of why the CCP praises it. And while I still think the Chinese Revolution in 1911 was a huge mistake, I'm less sure that is was avoidable, or that Japan would have wrecked China any less without it.
Almost every section of the article makes me think a whole bunch of what-ifs.
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/07/why-was-the-20th-century-not-a-chinese-century-an-outtake-from-slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-long.html
https://identi.ca/glynmoody/note/zn2a3KTVQg-F-uRjbq_Xdw