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@fitzr1189 @Peter_Nimitz @lionel_trolling He didn't say that. You switch around literature and model.

@Peter_Nimitz @lionel_trolling But that doesn't make it worthless, just poorly applied. But if you can apply it to western liberal regimes and are convinced by it, then the model has value

Okay, so I guess Pinochet's Chile wasn't authoritarian because there was a plebiscite and then an election? Moreover, there's a whole literature on competitive authoritarianism and hybrid regimes. Getting rid of elections entirely is very hard.

@VanStormberg @PunishedLuddite @Italian347 Wytgaard staat er niet op.

@PunishedLuddite @Italian347 Op deze kaart staan de katholieke enclaves in het Noorden juist wel aangegeven.

A fairly sizable portion of North Holland remained Catholic throughout the 16-17-1800s and no person I've asked to, not even historically knowledgeable Dutchmen, has been able to tell me much on it at all

@gcochran99 @mattyglesias Okay, but what was she reading on WW1?

@mattyglesias My daughter was reading Eagle Against the Sun, To Lose a Battle, Company Commander, Stalingrad, the Fateful Siege, The Double-Cross System. etc in home-school. When she was 10.

@LudditeHacker @salonium Runderpest

@salonium Jenner actually full blown stole the whole idea of vaccination from Geert Reinders who invented the cow pox vaccine *for cows* and Jenner used it on humans

I’m a disbeliever in accidental discoveries (at least, in biology). Whenever I’ve looked into one, the story turns out to be false. The most famous is penicillin – supposedly, the fungi wafted in through a window, fell into a petri dish of cultured staphylococci, and suppressed the bacteria’s growth. But in a recent article (asimov.press/p/penicillin-m…), @kevinsblake explains that doesn’t really work (grown staphylococci aren’t affected by penicillin; it only works if introduced before the bacteria begin growing); plus, Fleming’s notes on the discovery provide very little detail and the specific results he described couldn’t be replicated by other scientists (even though penicillin does work against staphylococci when introduced correctly.) There are more: Pasteur’s supposedly accidental discovery of a chicken cholera vaccine was more likely the result of systematic work by his then-assistant, Émile Roux. (jstor.org/stable/2332836…) And, as @NikoMcCarty writes, the discovery of GFP, nanopore sequencing, and optogenetics are also often described as accidents, but none of them happened that way either. nikomc.com/2026/04/01/opt… People love serendipity, so why am I bursting their bubble? I don’t think this is limited to accidental discoveries; I think many historical science anecdotes are highly embellished: - Edward Jenner didn’t deliberately expose a young boy with full-blown smallpox to test his vaccine (he used variolation); and he wasn’t the first to try using cowpox bsky.app/profile/scient… - Cobra catching bounties in British India didn’t lead to a rise in the number of snakebites, and there was only hearsay evidence that cobras were bred in response at all twitter-thread.com/t/169650089580… - Barry Marshall didn’t develop stomach ulcers from drinking a concoction of H. pylori (he did develop gastritis though…) cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/upl… - No one knows who actually found the highly-productive strain of penicillin on a cantaloupe, but it probably wasn’t 'Moldy Mary' scientificdiscoveries.ars.usda.gov/tellus/stories… But in this case it irks me for an additional reason – it gives the impression that innovation happens sporadically, by chance, when there are actually ways that we can systematically speed it up – such as better funding, institutions and incentives. So: are there any true accidental discoveries that hold up to scrutiny?

@marcavis @gcochran99 @L0m3z Funny thing actually, passage press also sells the memoirs of Peter Kemp, who's way more relatable than Jünger.

@gcochran99 @L0m3z Since the Books, 2026 blog post is many months away, give us some suggestions! :)

The Storm of Steel is arguably the best book ever written on the experience of modern war. It is a must read for everyone. This new printing of the original 1929 translation from Basil Creighton is best in class. I highly recommend this one. passage.press/products/storm…

@marcavis @gcochran99 @L0m3z Company Commander by MacDonald

@dohaallach @PunishedLuddite Nee, er zijn andere plannen.

@PunishedLuddite Oei! Ik was het verder wel eens met je tweetjes. Komt er nu revolutie in Nederland?

Oprecht, even niet aan gedacht. Sorry jongens

@AngusBylsma @pseudoerasmus @kyleichan I was looking whether you had reviewed de Vries his work, but what was the conclusion here? Unfortunately PE deleted his account so I can't see the response.

@pseudoerasmus @kyleichan Somewhat tangentially, is Vries’s The First Modern Economy still a good primer for this stuff? It’s been on my list for a while but I’m aware it’s fairly old now…

Shipbuilding might not seem as exciting as AI and EVs, but this one industry has been at the heart of industrial development for hundreds of years. In the 1600s, the Dutch (population 2 million) had “roughly half of the world’s total stock of seagoing ships.” China today is but the latest reigning champion, following in a long line of industrial powerhouses that dominated shipbuilding including the Dutch Republic, the British Empire, the US, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. Having a strong shipbuilding industry means: 1) capabilities for building large, complex, high-tech products 2) demand for upstream industries like steel 3) an advantage in maritime trade 4) naval power This text quoted here is from: William H. Sewell Jr. (2024) On the Emergence of Capitalism: Marx, Brenner, and the Troublesome Case of the Dutch journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… H/t @AndrewM_Fischer cc @pseudoerasmus

@echetus “I’m worried a son would inherit your large breasts and wide hips” You laugh, but I knew a guy to whom this happened.

“I’m worried a daughter would inherit your masculine features” is such a funny view of biology. “I’m worried a son would inherit your large breasts and wide hips” x.com/ShitpostRock/s…

@PunishedLuddite @kitten_beloved Er zijn ook inverse kaarten. Deze is voor Ruud. Volgens mij is het ergste nog (weliswaar mijn vermoeden) dat mensen in Friesland weer kijken naar wat Amsterdammers hun kind voor Friese naam geven om vervolgens die naam ook te geven als acceptabele Friese naam.

@edler261 @kitten_beloved Ja ik ken een Karst. De iets vaker voorkomende Friese namen komen ook in Groningen overal voor. De allerbekendste Friese namen gaan ten onder aan hun eigen succes want allemaal Amsterdammers gaan hun kind zo noemen en dan voelt t niet meer Fries.

Hou je nou niet van de domme voor likes van Amerikanen butje

@PunishedLuddite @kitten_beloved die naam* Was je wel bekend met Karst? Komt ~8 keer vaker voor.

@PunishedLuddite @kitten_beloved Hahaha, ok ik wist dus niet dat die Fries was.

@PunishedLuddite @kitten_beloved De mensen die Kerst heten zullen toch ook wel weten dat ze niet vernoemd zijn naar Kerstmis? TOCH?

@kitten_beloved You can't use kerst outside of the meaning christmas nobody would understand what you're saying unless you meet the 0.1% loons that know etymology.

@sabrdance @ChrisExpTheNews RTW from disc just doesn't run at all anymore. Had to rebuy on steam and that runs like shit as well. It's barely playable if you disable all but one core. Sad.

@ChrisExpTheNews Oh, that one was excellent. The made a sequel using Medieval Kings which runs better on modern hardware, but isn't quite as good. Also got a lot of mileage out of Roma Surectum

The Europa Barbaroum mod was S tier

@Gcity050 @PunishedLuddite Benieuwd of de andere Nieuwe Wereld kereltjes straks ook aanschuiven.

@PunishedLuddite Hij is gewend om minutenlang achter elkaar door te lullen op youtube. Tegelijkertijd wil hij ook niet zodanig ongenuanceerd overkomen dat hij niet weer wordt uitgenodigd bij SBS. Een lastige spagaat..

Hij zei 10x "Het is heel complex" om daarna simplistische onzin te spuien. Typisch Nederlanders "intellectueel" debat, je zegt van jezelf met veel tam-tam dat je intellectueel bent en doet er een beetje hocus pocus over complexiteit bij en je bent de grote ziener.

@PunishedLuddite Past mooi bij een factor 10 ernaast zitten wat betreft de waarde van de trekker.

Grote mond voor iemand die nu nog teert op zijn roem vergaard als 15-jarige kaarteninkleurder

@PunishedLuddite @ItoIian Waar moeten we aan denken?

@ItoIian Want op deze manier verdienen we er ook weinig aan terug.

De boze reaguurder weet waarschijnlijk niet dat 700 mn ook het bedrag is dat we jaarlijks aan "Sociale vooruitgang" in ontwikkelingslanden besteden. We zouden misschien beter kunnen korten op toneelstukken over gendergelijkheid in Kameroen dan op steun voor een Europees land.

@PunishedLuddite Zeer slecht voor de nachtrust.

Mijn trouwe volgers (1-2) weten dat ik het hier al een jaar of 7 geleden over had, maar in dit draadje in de herhaling: waarom immigratie in Spanje een bedreiging is voor Nederland. (Alweer)

@talithamuusse Het boek van Diarmaid MacCulloch

Ben nu een paar weken de Reformatie aan het bestuderen. Als iemand hier nog goede tips heeft (boeken, films, docu’s, artikelen) let me know.

@PunishedLuddite Er zijn eind 19e eeuwse neogotische kerken die geen monumenten status krijgen.

Dit kun je toch geen kerk noemen man. Geen wonder dat Nederland seculariseerde mijn hemel

We moeten echt iets doen om deze golf aan 'monumenten' te stoppen. Ieder gedrocht uit de jaren 50 wordt ineens een monument nu.