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"Modern times"

reading about a musician-founded anarchist/utopian commune on the south shore of long island in... 1851? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(community)

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116952912666924581
Andy Burnham is the first prime minister of Catholic faith to take office in modern times.
Boris Johnson was baptised a Catholic but converted to the Church of England while a young teenager, while Tony Blair convert…

In an editorial on NYT's 175th anniversary, Publisher A.G. Sulzberger blasted Trump: "No president in modern history has been more hostile than Donald Trump" (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/…

Donno what’s worse, the verse itself or DuckDuckGo’s generated explanation of it. @… https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/116925119988965039

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A modern story of old times (all these facts are approximations):
Piano white keys play tones called "naturals". They play the original tones in Western music, back to Ancient Greece.
Tones played by the black piano keys were added piecemeal for various reasons. Those tones weren't used much for millenia, so keys to produ…

I'm not even the first person to say things along this line either:
"Another motivation for reducing the steel intensity of modern society is to limit the consequences of geopolitical conflicts. The more steel we produce for peaceful purposes, the more steel becomes available for war and destruction. Remarkably, the production of military equipment is absent from modern steel statistics, and if mentioned, its share is very low. However, in times of war, steelmaking facilities switch to producing steel for military purposes. The steel industry can thus be converted into a weapons industry at any moment, and there is now a lot more steel production capacity available than there has ever been in history."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/ buried in the last footnote.
Oh, and that article also shows the math that proves that there is no way to move to EVs without absolutely blowing through the carbon budget. You have to switch to bikes and trains. There's literally no other way to keep an even close to habitable planet.

Why is war so economically costly?
Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors,
but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently
Our key policy implication is that restoring allocative efficiency
–and preparing institutional arrangements that facilitate rapid reallocation in times of stress
–is critical for sustaining economic capacity, defense, and national security.

The Allocative Cost of War - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why is war so economically costly? Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors, but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently. Using uniquely comprehensive firm-level data collected during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we document a dramatic collapse in allocative productivity in Ukraine. To […]

"Modern times"