Or the 40.000 english soldiers invading Walcheren in the Netherlands in 1809 to beat Napoleon but which had to retreat because of malaria nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeuwse...

EU to force replaceable batteries in phones and tablets from 2027 SMARTPHONES and tablets sold in Europe will have to feature replaceable batteries starting next year, according to EU rules, amid efforts to slash

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Incomprehensible fast growth. Data centre growth is already running into all kind of constraints. Expect more of that and as competition increases relocation to and investmen in cheap energy locations. The mediterranean sun.

Oke. 1 point: I do think that batteries and supplying to the grid is innovative. Since 1850-1950 (depends on country) households became less of a production centre (shoemaking, small groceries,...). They became consumption hubs.This changes that.

Households, not companies, have been the leading innovators when it comes to batteries in Germany.

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Wait what
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There seems to be a drone death zone of 20 km all along the front which at this moment widens with 100 meters or so a day

I'm going to read the book.

However... the spinning wheel easily doubled female spinning labour productivity. This might, considering the importance of spinning, have been the largest absolute leap in labour productivity ever.

4/ China Shock 2.0 www.ft.com/content/7d51...
Why is China able to build cheaply?
No, its not cheap labour
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"all the things you don’t see that matter: years of planning, tech & know-how from foreign experts,deep org reforms, experience across hundreds of projects"

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Nederland:: yoh, wij laten onze complete belastingdienst en DigiD via de Amerikanen lopen. Wat kan er nou misgaan?

Orban losts. No time to gloat. Let´s start reforming the EU. More power for the parliament, fewer parliamentarians, lower wages/perks for the parliamentarians, Brussels as the unique seat of the parliament, Eurobonds, and less overreach from Brussels.

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

I´ve some transcriptions of 16th century inventories, too. But these are not computerized (they were but the file is lost). I´ll check them.

was probably used to blow coarse particles out of the flour instead of re-milling it into a finer blend of flour). Some other words related to steen (stone) also yielded nothing. Conclusion: 18th century and beyond: at the least very rare in households rich enough to make a probate inventory.

I did a quick (automated) inventory of the Boedelbank of the Meertensinstituut (3.000 mainly post 1700 probate inventories) using the word ´molen´ (mill). Lots of coffee mills. One 1850 threshing mill (a find!)! Some large windmills. 1 chocolate mill. A 1640 ´buil´ mill of a baker comes closest but

It´s more interesting to look at what they're trying to achieve. This is no doubt vetted, but three words:

Community, community, community.

I´ll investigate.

5/5. The points:
a) Pre-modern society did know revolutionary increases in (labour)productivity.

b) We see this when we turn our attention from workplaces and factories to households and female labour and work.

4/5 In case of spinning, the opposite happened. Post 1500, the number of spinning wheels in probate inventories slowly increases. It seems that, especially during slack winter periods, females were spinning more often.

The amount and quality of available yarn must have increased significantly.

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3/5 In the case of milling, this seems to have left the realm of the household. It was ´commodified´, in a sense. Post-1500 Dutch probate inventories rarely mention hand-milling equipment. Women were finally, after aeons, released from the plight of milling (yes, the plight - try it).

2/5 Hand mills were replaced by windmills (with horse-powered mills as backup in case there was no wind).

In both cases, new tech led to a transformative increase in (labour) productivity: doubling, tripling, quadrupling. In both cases, this was centred on female labour.

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1/5 Two days ago, during an extended walk, my wife and I visited the (reconstructed) turf house in Firdgum, Friesland. Inside, there were 2 hand grain mills. I also spend time in the municipal archive in Leeuwarden. Its permanent exposition contains spindles.

Proves my point. Based on the Apollo 9 boomer nostalgia.

I have difficulties wrapping my mind around this. The US as a Trump family fief...

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

And China already had, in the space of only a few years, dethroned Germany as car exporter no. 1. Again: this comes on top of this.

This is Apollo 9. As I told you: boomer nostalgia. I remember having stickers of the US astronauts and moonrockets when I was 8 or 9 or so...

Er zijn redenen om de gaskraan open te zetten. Nu willen ze weer meer kolen, die per KwH electra veel meer CO2 produceren. Er is bij gasproductie genoeg geld om aardbevingsbestendige woningen te bouwen in wgroningen...