I mean if you’re org is doing land acknowledgements then it’s free to say them as aggressively as they want. Or even better, actually do something about it. For us the passive language came from the local first nation itself so I’m not really gonna question it. I’ve always read the request to do land acknowledgments as “In case of revolution, we call dibs”.

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I got morning glory mistaken with datura. They aren’t the same.

Excuse you, young me got their misinformation from 420Chan not 4chan. How dare you.

The 420chan /del/ board was a fun read back in my youth so I’ll share what I gathered:

1. Datura (morning glory) is very difficult to dose as the toxins are not evenly distributed throughout the plant. You can take 5 seeds and feel nothing or take two seeds and be gone for two days or worse.
2. it is a delieriant, not a psychedelic (hence /del/ not /psy/). You will see shit that is not there, think you are in different locations, talk to people who dont exist, etc. It is more like of doing a bunch of benedryl than of shrooms or acid.
3. It was never described as a “good time”. Instead more like some spiritual journey. At best you think youre having a deep conversation with your unborn daughter, when you’re really pacing back in forth, leaving a trail of partially chewn doritos on the floor. If you think you’re going to chill and listen to some music well actually you’re watching family guy for hours, actually the tv has been off this whole time, actually your on your deck and you’ve broken your favorite bong.

Have a trip sitter.

Im going to say that doesnt exist and restoring from it would be a nightmare. You could cobble together a shell or python script that does that though.

You’re better off just getting a drive bay and plugging all the drives in at once as an LVM.

You could also do the opposite, which is split the 4TB into the different logical volumes. Each the same size as a drive.

Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by the IDF had been holding a white flag, an Israeli military official has said.

This is going to get buried so fast.

Its cheaper than two continents of gold and silver but its not “like air”. Permanent war. Always on the home front, not the frontier. Western Europe ground on for like a millennia without any empire establishing itself.

You still need the permanent war though:

1. Permanent war.
2. Spain dumps new world gold and silver on the fire.
3. War intensifies
4. Capitalism finally emerges
5. Northern Europeans start colonizing either as capitalist for-profit ventures or to escape capitalism.

The core reason is you have many small to medium sized states in constant competition. Geography is a factor but its not the entire picture. They militarized first, then they colonized. But they did not militarized for the sake of opening markets. They opened markets so they could continue militarizing.

True but they couldn’t scale on-demand as steam can. Still can’t, but energy storage is the solution now.

You said there were no crops for massive scale farming yet we do massive scale farming with american crops. Also corn was grown at some scale all along the Mississippi and the deep south, thats how you get Cahokia. It wasnt just limited to Mexico.

The fact that those crops weren’t used at such large scale as the Europeans is due to the societal structures of the Americans not the lack of capable plants. Europeans enclosed the commons and privatized land ownership, the Americans didn’t. It has nothing to do with the lack of correct plants.

China would have to be in a permanent waring states period for centuries to develop the debt systems necessary to start capitalism. It had all the resources but none of the motivation. The Mongol Empire had little to do with that, unless you meant “returning China to dynastic rule”. Honestly that theory just sounds like chinese nationalist cope.

Also constant war necessitating more and more complicated systems of debt that both necessitate more war to pay of that debt but also allow financing large naval expeditions to loot not just the new world but the entire Indian ocean. Even after all this they are still in constant conflict with each other so the exploitation of the rest of the world accelerates to keep up.

Corn and potatoes are notoriously great for large scale farming. Or are you talking about African yams?

Because its literally illegal to support Palestine in Germany. It got written in law decades ago so now every political party must support Israel. Who is going to articulate to them the reality? Online foreigners? Thats just people who never had to face their antisemitism.

Western and northern Europe had been flooded with German nomads so kingdoms were constantly being carved out and borders were in constant flux. Also in the western roman empire, the pope ruled over Caesar, unlike in the east where it was Ceasar over the pope. This meant these new German kings were constantly jostling for the title of holy roman emperor and back stabbing whoever got it.

Baltic sea ship building (viking) mixing with Mediterranean ship building led to caravel built ships. The Arabs were just as capable seafaring merchants as the Europeans. But they didn’t have systems to finance expeditions around Africa to fuck with Christians like the Portuguese would with them.

This is not the reason but a key reason: Baltic rough sea ship building tech met Mediterranean large scale ship building tech via the vikings. Outcome is caravel hulls. Strap cannons on and now your ship is the naval equivalent of a nomadic horse archer army. You can hit anything with cannons and just retreat to blue waters before anyone could hit back.

Mediterranean ship building was built for scale but mostly joined large blocks of light wood together using mortoise and tenons. This meant ships could be large but were also brittle. Rough seas would snap the boat. But there were still large enough that people could put cannons on them as soon as small cannons were a thing.

In the Baltic, the seas are always rough. So shipbuilders used thin overlapping strips of heavy wood, which were nailed together, called “Clinker built”. These thin strips of wood could twist and flex in rough seas so your ship wouldn’t break. But you could only build ships so big in this style. Viking long ships could never fit a cannon.

Were viking traders first met Mediterranean shipping would’ve been around the Iberian peninsula. So its little wonder that the Spanish and Portuguese were the first intercontinental European empires. The Portuguese were considered the “first” though. And were far more Naval based than the Spanish. Once they got into the Indian ocean they became sea Mongols because they could strike anyone with impunity, claiming dominion over the entire indian ocean. Check out Afonso De Albuquerque for Portuguese exploits in the Indian ocean.

Steam power is insane outside of boating. Before all the work in your society must come from potential energy stored in food. After steam you could get free work out of rocks.

The americas had jack shit for work animals but thats sort of a guns germs and steel explanation. China had all the same materials and Europe and didn’t go off to pillage the world.