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While Keynesianism was distinct from the Mercantilism that was practiced in earlier U.S. history, it was more sympathetic to these protectionist policies than most Neoclassical economic views.

me tryin' to read this Marxist paper on protectionism and fallin' asleep

can there BE a duller sentence?

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seconding this but extra points if the book is free on Project Gutenberg

Does anyone have any book recs? Ideally something fairly lighthearted but well written, or a story that draws you in. Don’t really mind what genre and it doesn’t have to be all sunshine and roses the whole way through but if it has a happy ending that would be great

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also looking at jobs in South Africa, hopefully Elon is ignoring it for now. I'm sure living there has a learning curve but I like how the country stood up for Gaza.

idk how hard it would be to retire there, at least in Germany/EU there's probably a clear path. I'd have to do research.

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Even as everyone's completely experiencing paralysis, my neighborhood homelessness group is quite fired up. It's lovely to see and tempting just to disappear into activity-wise, though I worry about its ability to go on as things get worse around here politically.

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I enjoy his Kaiser Wilhelm episodes. I learned a lot from them.

Robert Evans being an amazing educator on German history while absolutely linguistically ignorant of German is one of those things about people. Though he did weirdly once pronounce "Volksgemeinschaft" correctly.

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Robert Evans being an amazing educator on German history while absolutely linguistically ignorant of German is one of those things about people. Though he did weirdly once pronounce "Volksgemeinschaft" correctly.

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one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers Robert Evans

(me hoping to avoid my internet hero's Nuremberg)

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Watching the AfD overtake the SPD in polls *is* ominous though. I mean really.

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Also I deleted fizzbork. bye bye Zuckerberg.

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Just restarted my job search for serious and it's not great out there. It's been two months and I haven't gotten much recruiter interest compared to 2021. I think I need to be really targeted and obviously start looking full time instead of driving around for my neighborhood homelessness group (clearly more fun).

Berlin start-up jobs are less applied-for on linked in but probably I will be less of interest bc of needing immigration assistance and only having A1 (tm) language skills. Still I found a bunch and will apply to them. Even though German politics are currently drifting quickly right, due a combination of inveterate German you-know-what-ness and Elon Musk's influence. Still at least the AfD won't secure the Prime Minister, I think, so things are still better than in the US right now.

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The empress was able to have lovers but Elizabeth I only got to go on long walks with her boyfriends . . . ?

Even the only female emperor in Chinese history is not safe from toxic bfs, though she certainly has her own way of dealing with one.

This is about Xue Huaiyi, a male lover of Empress Regnant Wu (not called Emperor Wu colloquially in English to avoid confusion with Emperor Wu of Han). The story is that he got super jealous that she was growing closer to another male lover, her doctor Shen Nanqiu, and so he acted OUT. During a banquet he drew a huge buddha using ox blood and claimed it was his own blood that he drew from his knee (of all places). When she neither believed it nor was impressed by it, he burnt down the 91-meter-tall pagoda that he built for her. She proceeded to have him unalived (stories differ as to how) and then had his ashes mixed into the building material for a new pagoda.

Wu Zetian knows how to handle yanderes 😉

Source: 旧唐书, 资治通鉴

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Song from Lesbian Play for Lucy by Eleanor Hakim, circa 1990s

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I like much of his writing but he did just decamp to Toronto, which makes me nervous. Was he self-exiling himself prematurely or just reading the room?

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I do not find these dragon books deep but they are very sweet and wholesome.

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Daddy's Roommate (1990) by Michael Willhoite

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ALSO also i promise this isn't just the brainworms talking but. His Majesty's Dragon is a Beauty and the Beast narrative