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@APHClarkson
A lot of "long war of attrition" types never seem to mention Ukraine is likely to have half a million in uniform months before Russia can mobilise anything like it.
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@APHClarkson
Even though most of them already lived through one surprise Russian state collapse in their lifetimes.
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@Noahpinion
They did write stuff down. Gregory of Tours, Bede, Alcuin. There's a happy medium here.
1. "Dark Ages" sees a massive collapse of socio-economic capacity in Europe with the fall of Rome.
2. It wasn't complete collapse, and societies invest a lot in preserving what they can.
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Rural Japan is poor, but all the infrastracture* that supports this car-oriented mall culture is based on the LDP rural patronage machine which is the closest thing Japan has to socialism. All paid for at the expense of urban poor
*i.e. roads, subsidies, pensions, healthcare
The image of a giant Aeon Mall in the middle of impoverished Japanese countryside fittingly describes the country’s whole economy and capitalist existence. Giant corporations literally sucking the country dry, leaching off the work of an underpaid populace. 1/
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@Noahpinion
You don't love Anime, you love permissive zoning with privatised off street parking.
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@antonhowes
Sorry but are FPTP systems consistently better governed than proportional ones? Otherwise this is folk wisdom. Discriminatory folk wisdom at that.
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@NQRW
@mattyglesias
@Zmapper
Party politics creates energy policy. Not Upper Middle Class Hobby Radicalism.
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@AntBreach
@jameswdelano
@KilianMuster
@GearoidReidy
Its telling NIMBY planners talking about heat islands in Tokyo never talk about replacing road lanes with trees or expanding river park/flood zones i.e. stuff that has actually worked. Or putting reflective covers on top of car parks.
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@Noahpinion
This is unfair to Nicholas he actully had a mass mobilisation infrastracture that produced an army that took years to fall apart.
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@warsanddolls
@the_transit_guy
They are on the busiest shipping lane in the world. They have one major airport while being a major business entrepot in the fastest growing region in the world. Its not that hard. (America is just bad at this because you don't have a technically proficient bureaucrats).
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@SashoTodorov1
Actually retirees in Japan are pretty restrained. The Abe government actually suppressed pension rises to cut corporation taxes. Ageing's negative role in Japanese politics is a more subtle refusal to abandon the Postwar economic model.
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@APHClarkson
Something Ukraine shares with Russia, state capacity especially in hard power much higher than simple GDP per capita ratios. (Also Ukrainian economic weakness is Russia's fault a lot of the time).
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@dlknowles
Chicago is on my list of "actually misgovernment not logistics/legacy specialisation is the primary reason its not matching its rivals" along with Marseilles, Osaka, Berlin and Rome.
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@chriswalsh28
@Osinttechnical
@Sierra__Alpha
They have those guys, they're busy ambushing Russians around Kyiv.
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@McReynoldsJoe
@Noahpinion
Things driving Japanese inequality.
1 Deflation/insufficient demand weakens labour bargaining power
2 Taxation became more regressive thanks to corp and income plus Involution of the salaryman model.
Problem is that to solve these you have to overthrow the LDP and Postwar Japan
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@cjayanetti
@rcolvile
Colvile's view of the market is its whatever the Conservative party and its media sphere need it to be. (See his relationship to the bond market).
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@adb0wen
@p_crosland
Americans usually believe your racial caste allows to download all information/culture of said race. England is the one exception, they all assume they have an intuitive grasp of England (the true special relationship).
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@policy_uk
@richardmarcj
"UK public policy failure" defends greatest UK policy failure. The system underbuilt every year of its existence. It had successfully deindustrialised Southern England by 1990 well before the post 2000 uptick.
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@Noahpinion
Duh, post-colonialism was designed for and by Global south elites to export responsibility for 1. Failing before colonisation. 2. Collaborating during colonisation 3. Failing after decolonisation. 4. Leaving homeland to live in the Global North.
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@BretDevereaux
Sarissa phalanx in broken terrain? I thought you were into buff Middle Republican Italian heavy infantry.
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@RishiJoeSanu
@Noahpinion
Houston has zoning by stealth (sub plot regulations, restrictive deeds etc). Texas is the western world's leading top down developmental state.
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@davidallengreen
But I want a magical solution which simplifies all physical capital decision making into a single easy to understand principle so I don't have to do any work (i.e. thinking about where to draw the line)
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@Noahpinion
A central problem of Green movement people is they see Climate Change as a moral issue solved by virtue, rather than techno-economic one solved by innovation and adroit policy making.
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@ChittiMarco
Not just NA, British planners looove "guidelines", lots of busy work with no risky commitments/decisions. Anglo-Saxon Boomer Conservative governance is based on paperwork masquerading as bureaucracy.
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@alon_levy
Free transit skeptics were right. Usable service not price is the binding constraint for mode share.
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@Gaylussite
Meanwhile in Tokyo I got paid 2/3s of that and had enough left over to go holidays, eat meat everyday and still have savings. All because the rent was 300 quid per month.
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@LivFaustDieJung
Japanese language learning goes through 3 stages of improvement.
1. They praise you in English
2. They praise you in Japanese
3. They correct you in Japanese.
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@pF1G__xG3w0z9qe
@Noahpinion
Principal agent problems! Remember healthcare is where all market failures happen at the same time.
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@DelicateFabrics
@APHClarkson
Cummings is a master of mobilising English nativism against Civil Servants, constitutional reform, the EU, Labour, Immigrants. That's not necessarily the skill set for governing where his record is bad.
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@AlecStapp
? WTF. This is literally lies, none of the major private Railway corporations in Japan have gone bankrupt unless you count two rural privatised ones (there over 20). And SNCF, Korail an THSR are all profitable.
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@IDoTheThinking
A lot of the "problems" of America are basically because the underlying American economy and society are so productive it can afford to suck horribly at bunch of things (like Urban planning and healthcare).
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@leukeamia
@Noahpinion
Can an Englishman patiently ask if the USA and Canada belong to us on similar principles? Can we expect the great Chinese nation to support the unification of all the children of Albion?
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@Nihonpolitics
Yeah its completely bogus statistics. India has government sponsored pogroms FFS. Only the US is anywhere near that. Japan is waaay less polarised than China or Malaysia.
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@Title_REDACTED
@NQRW
@mattyglesias
@Zmapper
So has incompetant protest politics....wait they succeeded in stopping us getting French levels of Nuclear power and throtttled onahore wind. (Offshore wind our one success is a pretty vanilla centre left success)
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@Noahpinion
Also unit costs will be higher given the lack of pipe infrastracture. And guess who controls global maritime insurance?
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@profTLe
@PhillipLipscy
@MichaelTCucek
The ancient Japanese tradition of wearing ritual ""masuku" to protect against pestilences.
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Britain the country with the Oldest Housing Stock in Europe, with 1/5 buildings 100 plus years old has a "disposable" attitude to buildings.
Well these people have a disposable attitude to human beings that's for sure.
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@zoningwonk
This is too flattering to NYC, much of London's rail network isn't TFL and on their worst days Southern, Southeastern etc are better than Metro North and LIRR on their best.
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@ChittiMarco
1. Not their idea so it must bad.
2. Its Italian, so it must be bad.
3. That's simple not sexy.
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@DrewPavlou
Upper Caste North Indian fleeing post-Mandal for London's and New York's far left circles. Easy mark for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. His books were always vicious endorsements of Imperialism so long as its done by Asians.
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@Noahpinion
There were hints of that in the 1980's in Falklands when Argentina's military got ripped to shreds by the RN's outnumbered mini-carriers and light infantry. The NATO synthesis of superior tech, firepower and training, no more France 1940.
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@Nikopol5
@APHClarkson
Also material support from the most powerful bloc in human history > leftover ammunition from dead empire.
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@Nihonpolitics
Presides over the most privatised land-transport market in the world while also slowly nationalising the economy through soft-loans, pension fund and BOJ actions.
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@McReynoldsJoe
@Noahpinion
Relative housing abundance has compensated to a degree. But outside Tokyo its reached its end. And indeed construction pork is part of the anti-Labour growth machine.
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@Noahpinion
N/b Medievalists rage against the term also comes from its misuse with the High and Late Middle Ages.
11th-15th Europe was a rapidly developing place that was 2nd only to East Asia in socio-economic complexity.
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@ChittiMarco
Apartments/Density=childlessness discourse annoys me. Apartments, flat-shares and low fertility are responses to expensive living/working space. Rent/Prices aren't the only variable but they matter (Japan now has highest NE Asia fertility).
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@Noahpinion
"How many postmodernists does to change a lightbulb? None because darkness is a social construct. " (a historian told me that joke)
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@McReynoldsJoe
@Noahpinion
Japan is egalitarian on wealth because it is egalitarian on land. But on everything else...
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@stephenkb
Uggh hasn't a century of Labour attacking Tories for being upper class and posh taught these people that it just doesn't work. If it did they wouldn't the dominant party in British political life.
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@BretDevereaux
Operationally probably not, I think 2008 and especially 2014 were more important. No opening air campaign. Heck 1968 was probably their dream special military operation.
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@Noahpinion
1. Rome is considerably more important and long lasting.
2. Greek and Latin give you 90% of what you need. Mongol you need Persian, Chinese, Mongol, Arabic etc.
3. USA was founded by people from Western Europe.
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@Noahpinion
1. A lot of those pavilions are meant to be real places.
2. A lot of traditional Chinese painting is about fantasising you are a great scholar-official working under a sage ruler in a palace or have your own ornate pad or are hanging out with chums at a famous historic pad.
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@BretDevereaux
The problem with it is that Reagan and Thatcher etc predate Gorbachev let alone the end of the USSR. And the their electoral coalitions and ideologues are emerging clearly in the 1970's.
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@ne0liberal
Natural monopolies, imperfect information, super-high price in-elasticity, massive externalities, baumols cost disease, high non-price competition ....yeah pretty much every market failure happens here.
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@the_transit_guy
1. Rail freight struggles on islands against the ports-truck container nexus. This was freight network.
2. The Republic and the UK were anti-urban cultures in the 20th century.
3. There just aren't enough people to justify that thick a network.
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@nik0p0l5
@SwannMarcus89
They never really tried, they wanted a grudge-scapegoat more than a distinct culture (you know that line about a language being a dialect with an army and navy well the Irish Free State is proof of that).
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@JackTindale
Laissez-Faire mid-19th Britain. Parliament decides all major land assembly projects, nationalises the road system and institutes first peace-time income tax.
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@MarketUrbanism
@giulio_mattioli
Poor quality green space is a consistent problem planners inflict on us, the assumption the colour green just makes things "sustainable". Too much main road straight onto grass. And grass is prioritised too much over other plants.
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@Sam_Dumitriu
Germany is a flattering example. India is about to 100% electric through a big push over the last 20 years, ditto China, Korea and Denmark.
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@ne0liberal
Its the most gender egalitarian country in East Asia period mostly because it never developed the Korean-Japanese systems of permanent employment.
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@Noahpinion
Wait till you become Britain and its just one company because you nationalised it in the 1970's having tanked your civilian industry analogues through a smorgasbord of bad policies!
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@DevinFitzger
Actually this but unironically. Asian studies needs less Anglosphere/America and more Europe.
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@TypeForVictory
Ok this is complete nonsense
1. The Empire is doomed. America offered the dominions a better patron, and the non-dominions wanted out.
2. BP and RDS have plenty of business in the Postwar Middle East (see German/Italian/Japanese whingeing).
3. WW2 is about UK being weaker.
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@AntBreach
If the North levels up it will no longer be the North. Thats what she's saying. Northern intelligentsia's social conservatism and self-regard is a thing to behold.
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@pseudoerasmus
The similar pattern in Vietnam suggests that the USSR's resource exports are the big difference allowing Stalinism longer decades of growth/stagnation.
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@SashoTodorov1
@BeijingPalmer
Add " white Anarchist with a Phd working at global elite finishing school" and this is perfect.
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Turkey appeals to the Imperial Comission for recognition as official purveyors of Doner to the Empire.
Application submitted by
#T
ürkiye for "Döner" to be granted Traditional Speciality Guaranteed 🇹🇷.
This opens the opposition phase, which lasts for 3 months.
🥙
#GeographicalIndications
#EUQuality
#TSG
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@APHClarkson
Even Europeans with bad memories of their former monarchies have much more sensitive understanding of how UK monarchial culture works and what means than Americans do.
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@Noahpinion
Not just that. The narrative is written to privilege intellectuals over technologists and learn-by-experience-and-problem-solving. Lots of crappy Enlightenment babble out there, not enough discussions of glass manufacturing.
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@BretDevereaux
The Shire imposes sanctions on Isengard's import of Longbottom Leaf. Lorien sends camo-cloaks and Fangorn ent-draughts to Rohan. Gondor hack Palantir. Mordor bemoans the conflict while blaming Gondor.
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@Nihonpolitics
Nothing speaks better of Komeito that so many of the worst people in Japan hate it.
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@joakial_
@infraexplained
It could be worse you could be the UK or Turkey. Your problem is oil wealth means you can afford to worship fishermen. In UKania we have to keep a failed rival union going according to our civic culture the English are worthless.
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@JRUrbaneNetwork
I'm a Keisei man through and through (I lived next to them and feel sorry that they inherited the worst competition).
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@de1ong
@HeerJeet
@kevinbaker
Churchill was the best man for the war in the European theatre, pretty good in Asia-Pacific, absolutely terrible for the Indian subcontinent
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@whyvert
@turrible_tao
Jansen's history of Modern Japan is the best. But honestly nothing synthetic, comprehensive or majesterial. Because American academics are terrible.
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