wage data is just too spotty, none of the sources I’ve seen would support any big claims given the big administrative gaps and of course, scope of informal labour markets in underdeveloped parts of the world
playing around with trade datasets to see how core / periphery plays out in export profiles. You can see how much more manufacturing, capital goods and high-tech production happens in Germany or China versus Libya or Guinea, but yet to figure out how to get into thinking about the value chain
Irish Times with the insight (it can happen!) that the set of interest groups conventionally grouped as rural Ireland have benefitted from a reaf of handouts (nitrate exemptions, subsidies, road investment) and thanked the government by nearly knocking them out of office
Conas a déarfá “interrogating a paradigm” i nGaeilge? Conas a déarfá i mBéarla é?
MARCH DATA: China's cleantech ‘new three’ exports surged by a staggering 39% in March, compared to February, to a staggering $21.9 billion🤯
Solar +121%
Batteries +44%
EV's +5%
Its good
Who gives a fuck
Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
🤝
Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness
I guess it's the closest to moderation that was available and maybe his leadership last chance to avoid mass death? But It's true, invading Europe would've been as bloodthirsty as you can get, it's a shame there was no army in 18.
It's the call people are making these days, I'm still Lenin Trotsky even especially when they were wrong
Calling it for dollar system doesn't last his term
Obviously Israel's own genocidal conduct and mass revolt worldwide plays a role, but I think an understated factor is MAGA's full embrace of Israelification, being pro-Israel is now a vulgar white honkey position for dumb shmuck racists, can't bring that around to a nice cocktail party
Will we ever see their like again
Just finished the most recent series.... Speed running an airbase in Namibia, running a battle with the Boers over the phone... idgaf Napoleon has nothing on Castro
Huh.
I remember watching a supercut of all the midcredit teasers that set up the MCU and it was very funny how much they repeated "Cameo Character says something is coming. Cut"
Whatever this insert is will very much be AI. In a film that in every respect was already very AI
here's about ten people in that census who was alive during the year of no summer. blows your mind the extent of social change people see in a generation
my grandparents weren't born till the 30s so only one of the great uncles is on there ~3 ys old. great-grandmother apparently used talk about what leaves were more sustaining to eat than others; her father was a thatcher but fell off a roof and couldn't work so, very impoverished
awh man, 'pap' was one of those too-English words like fluff or pithy I try to avoid but I think if we spread knowledge of that first definition we can bring it back
fuel protests seem to have been a China-pilling experience for commentators in the Irish media but since they are, at the end of the day, commentators in the Irish media, they want to highlight the dangers of China's real-estate bubble 👍
Hard to imagine much good happening in our timeline, but I do think I’ll live to see Israel become a pariah nation and cut loose by its benefactors
america needs a president who brings back pizza every single day for the white house interns and goes "PIZZA NIGHT!" and acts really excited and by the 500th times nobody cares anymore but he still keeps doing it & goes like "oh fuck me, right? fuck me for doing pizza night" & throws it on the floor
crosspost from X:
AHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHH I WANNA KIL
lot going on here, huh?
it was just so, I don't know, tryhard sincerity chasing while making fun of me for rolling my eyes and /or being moved? which is impressive in one way but mostly just annoying
I quite liked the 'you can change, you can change' song* but then I heard this and it felt like watching the likes of adam friedland's standup
*reminded me of beirut, if anyone remembers them
weak