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I haven’t read the books other people are suggesting, but the arguments I have heard mostly center around materials science. Rome did not have access to high enough quality metals and was unable to machine parts to the standards required for steam engines. Britain sits on top of large coal and iron deposits, exactly what an early society needs to produce high quality steel. Producing steel in the Americas before European contact was not possible due to the large distances between coal and iron deposits combined with the lack of waterways or transport animals to move the required quantities of ore.

This is just how I remember it, there are probably a few issues with it, but the main point is that Britain and Europe to a lesser extent got very lucky with geography.

Being a new account on its own doesn’t signify wrecking, but if someone starts baiting arguments and their account is new it looks pretty suspicious. Not that I should talk, my account is only 6 months old and I have started a few struggle sessions and gotten more than one person banned because of them.

It’s a bit of an open secret among IT techs that PC g*mers without actual tech backgrounds (ie at least an A+ cert) are not very good with computers.

Oh the horrors of someone doing something they aren’t an expert in.

Cost of the cable is <$50, but you do not need to buy them as a consumable item. I would suggest you do not buy this.

I have to ask, why are you choosing CivE?

What qualifies as modern for you?

I love when horse power is a number of horses

According to the article he was “heavily intoxicated”, not really a good time to be making life changing decisions like if you want to have 5 gallons of petrol poured on you and lit on fire. Even then, just because someone doesn’t flee or deescalate doesn’t mean they deserve to be lit on fire, holy shit.

Honestly baffling, I think most people either didn’t read the article or don’t understand how awful being set on fire is.

Please ZelensKKKyy, I need it for my politics bingo

Im going to make a @rednote@hexbear.net account to impersonate xiaohongshu

Lots of Alibaba sellers set prices way below the real prices to drive traffic. Typically they want you to inquire so they can raise the price significantly, you can report this to Alibaba to get them to increase their listed prices. If something is listed as “Alibaba Guaranteed” the item should be able to be bought at the listed price without negotiation, but they call still try to weasel out of it. As B2C users Alibaba really isnt meant for us, but who cares.

The comments on that post are truly awful, fun video though!