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Touche! They have gotten so innovative with it

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Fraud?

Because of their behavior? Violence was one of the main ways actors resolved conflicts in this period. Didn't like a new tax or that the King appointed his cousin or not your cousin Bishop? Revolt! Have a battle, whoever wins the fight gets his way.

Clovis I the would have absolutely used centralizing tools like railways and the telegraph to enforce his rule more uniformly and ensure his dynasty's success. He only reason why he didn't was because he couldn't.

Dark ages monarchs spent all their time trying to stabilize their regime and enforce their will on the society. We know this because we know how much time they spent marching around their areas putting down revolts and fighting off invasions.

Tough to know where to start. Pretty much every fact asserted in this piece is without any real evidence.

Starting at the end >This change occurred as a result of William the Conqueror’s defeat of Harold Godwinsson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. As a result of this, William claimed that he had won the whole country by right of conquest. Every inch of land was to be his, and he would dispose of it as he thought fit.

All land was thereafter owned by the crown. Perhaps in this can be found the seeds of the desire by the lords for the Magna Carta

This is simply not true that William claiming this was somehow new or novel. Lots of kings did this at the time. The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris illustrates this well.

Further, yes the dark ages were decentralized, but not at all because of the reasons in the piece. They were decentralized because the was an era of incredibly high friction. It took forever to get anywhere, to tell anything to anyone, to trade, to make deals, collaborate, to organize people. A bad harvest could wipe out a decade of hard labour building up a community. In that context there were just very few centriphical forces pulling things to the center.

Because no one wants to pay anyone for work

Why would I ever search on a ChatGPT - thats not what they are for. They are for helping summarize things, writing copy, designing excel. Making silly images.

Search is for finding specific websites and products. Totally different things.

America's ability to fail its citizens is truly limitless

Union now. Union tomorrow. Union Forever.

Alexa should be banned, and Amazon should be broken up into a dozen or so entities

But does anyone use them? Everyone org I've worked for and with - large government departments, publicly traded entities, small PE owned entities use excel.

As others say in this thread, the world runs on Excel.

Unionize. Collective action is the only way to stand up to Uber and co.

Ban crypto. Wrap the whole thing up globally. It was a bad idea allowed to run on for too long. Time to stop the music.

The post office offers amazing service and its workers have been a key part of the labour movement.

Also next day delivery is almost never an option where I live so I don't bother with it.

Nothing shows the power of unions more than the lengths companies go to fight them.

In a Union there is Strength.

I think the main reason is that VASSAL-VASL (https://vasl.info/) has 90% of the features of a video game and is free. It has all the counters, maps, charts and guides -all that is missing is the rules and the scenario cards. MMP sells a searchable pdf version of the rules for cheap online and the vast majority of players are happy to share scenario cards if their opponent doesn't have it.

That you can't see the value in having such a team - that having such a team is essential for a company like twitter to operate - is completely baffling to me. Not having one will make advertisers pull out and make the company much less profitable.