He didn’t quite stick the landing on his “destroy the US empire” speedrun last term, but he wasn’t idle over the last 4 years and has come out the gate with a strong strategy this time around!

No, because this test will now be discussed and invalidated for that purpose.

These are good points and sources, thank you!

To add to it: Matt Christman has said a lot of times that peasants weren’t motivated to work harder than necessary for their survival and I agree with him. It was in the best interest of the Lord to keep his peasants alive of course, but there was absolutely no incentive for the peasant to provide the lord with more produce than the minimum. Supervision probably also wasn’t very stringent. The Lord himself certainly didn’t look over every peasants shoulder. Sure, there would be some village guards or whatever, but they probably didn’t do that either. The peasants were free people at least nominally and you couldn’t force them to do these things without risking unrest etc.

Knowing how hard I work when I know my boss doesn’t have the time to check my work…I think those people slacked off A LOT once their own community had what it needed. Some of these linked papers mention a workday of 12 hours and to that I saw: sure, for a few weeks in spring and autumn that may have been true. But the rest of the time, those peasants would spend a lot of time around the village water cooler.

The real question is ho many hours of work a day held for them. Clearly, spring and autumn would be the most busy, with winter the least busy and summer second least, unless there was a war they had to be pressed into service for.

But that’s relative. Many families would make cloth in the winter when there was little else to do. That’s as much work as it’s keeping sane in those times.

If you exclude that kinda thing, as well as cooking and brewing and such, I do believe the studies that put the work hours per day (averaged) at around 3, giving a work-week of around 20 hours. Especially with a lot of it being physically demanding, that seems realistic.

Oh hey look, another community to block.

Just idiots grifting each other and bigger idiots downstream. Nothing to see here.

Definitely the bravest people we have. Fyling Boeing… wow.

I can’t wait for Ubisoft to die. Out of the big ones, they seem the most likely to eat shit in the near-ish future.

Shut up and fuck off, Nigel

The Bocchi the Rock anime vs the Manga. The Manga is by no menas bad, but it is a 4 panel gag affair which has very little of the dynamism and weird jokes of the anime. I really want them to make more of it.

You’re HUGE for a 6 yea r old!

Is this country specific? The EU has existing law in many countries that allows users to filter out ads.

What an office really needs is more sitting and more being run over in the hallways by nerds on mobility scooters.

Time to do another bailout!

So, like, get beamed on a planet and eaten by the monster of the week?

Of course the article has to put a big anti-communist cartoon at the top, because pea-brained chuds still think the Bolsheviks are in power and Putin is some sort of Stalin 2.

Oooh noooo…anyway.

Prediction: they are gonna release some shitty pieces of DLC to technically fulfill their obligation to the idiots who bought some sort of ultra-elite-platinum version of the game or whatever it’s called, after which point they will abandon the game, because no one cares at this point, them least of all.

War becoming cheaper to wage as these machines become obsolete is good news for the Proletariat.

“The thing we made up and that never worked to help people…is failing! OOOOH NOOOOO!”