
Kuru
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JP's surpassing CN by a century is an anomaly in the world, just as Western civilization's surpassing Chinese civilization by 400 years is itself an anomaly. This anomaly is largely due to CN's dark period under Manchu rule, the Manchu rule over CN was itself largely an anomaly.


Every girl on here has that 1 photo that has made them thousands lol


In your opinion, what is the best intellectual history book written since 2000.

"2025-26, wearing apparel contracted by 5.3%,leather by 4.1%, while textiles...grew by just 1.2%. Other manufacturing collapsed by 14.9%, and food products grew by less than 1%...while labour-intensive, export-oriented sectors are stagnating or shrinking." m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…






First Draft. Have just bound the manuscript of my forthcoming book ‘The Madness of Cars’


Even supercomputers won’t solve the problems inherent to central planning. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to replace capitalism with something better: jacobin.com/2026/05/centra…





Young people in Japan have less hope for the future than most other countries in the world. A recent poll conducted on people aged 17-19 from Japan found that just 16% of them thought their country would improve in the future.






Egypt's current population is pretty insane when you realize that by 1800 it had roughly half the population of Ancient Egypt, and maybe only a third of what it had during the Arab conquest. Population was at a historic low when Napoleon went.




Know this turn has been in the making for a while but this is a bit like if the Pope announced he was becoming a Buddhist

















