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Joachim Voth

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economic historian. opinions=my own. pronouns (Sir/Herr Prof. Dr.). Pessoa aficionado. 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇭

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@joachim_voth
Joachim Voth
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Did slavery facilitate Europe's early rise to riches? Steve Redding @ReddingEcon, Stephan Heblich, and I focus on the single biggest slave-trading nation, Britain, and revisit the famous "Williams hypothesis". We combine theory and geographically disaggregated data to show
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@joachim_voth
Joachim Voth
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The Red Cross. Every. Single. Time. Antisemitic; criminal, corrupt.
@eabowie99
liz bowie
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@JewsFightBack He obtained his passport and travel documents from the International Red Cross. Went from Argentina to Paraguay to Brazil. Incredible. He had to have had "help" along the way. I am very interested in knowing how he evaded capture.
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@joachim_voth
Joachim Voth
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What's in a name? Names are chosen by parents, conveying their values -- Freyer and Levitt shows the effects of Black names, Fiszbein, Bazzi et al. show how naming becomes more individualistic on the American frontier. But how do we know? Why are names associated with a group?
@MarcelCaesmann
Marcel Caesmann
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In 1550, naming your son "Matthias" in Germany meant nothing. By 1650, it marked you as Catholic. How do arbitrary symbols become identity markers—common knowledge that organizes group boundaries? My JMP studies this in the Protestant Reformation. 🧵
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@DerPhysiker21
Der Physiker 🇮🇱🎗
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Diese Frau benötigt einen soliden Grundkurs in Physik, Wirtschaft und Technologie: * Himmelsmechanik (Kopernikus lässt grüßen): Neigung der Erdachse => im Winter in Nordländern wie D kaum verwertbare Sonne * Elementarer Geometrie (Stirnfläche einer Kugel = 1/4 seiner
@fbrantner
Franziska Brantner
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Wir können in einem Land leben, das von der Energie der Sonne lebt. Einer Sonne, die in einer einzigen Stunde mehr Energie auf die Erde strahlt, als die ganze Menschheit in einem Jahr verbraucht. Das ist keine Vision, für die man zum Arzt muss, das ist keine Spinnerei – das ist
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@JewsFightBack
Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱
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BREAKING🚨 Argentina didn’t “miss” Josef Mengele. They hid him. Thanks to President Milei, newly declassified files expose the truth once and for all. - Mengele entered Argentina in 1949 using a fake Italian passport under the name Helmut Gregor - The government issued him
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@joachim_voth
Joachim Voth
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Es gibt sie noch, die guten Nachrichten. Direkte Demokratie funktioniert - zumindest in den Händen der Schweizer.
@mcpolitik
Manuel Cadonau 🇨🇭
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Stark! 💪🏻 Was da heute passiert ist, war kein Votum – das war eine politische Demontage ein Fiasko für die Jusoträumer. 80% der Schweizerinnen und Schweizer haben den Juso‑Ideologen die rote Karte gezeigt: Keine sozialistische Erbschaftssteuer. Kein Klassenkampf im
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@_alice_evans
Alice Evans
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Between the 15-18th centuries, Tatar cavalry conducted more than 2,500 raids on over 800 settlements, 5 million people were abducted - taken as captives to the Black Sea ports for sale across the Ottoman Empire. (Charnysh & Lall 2024)
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@Rothmus
Rothmus 🏴
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@intermarium24
Intermarium 24
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@KTB_500
Raise the Black
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The doctrine isn’t whispering anymore. It’s screaming through a burning CP speaker: **MISSION COMMAND IS THE ONLY COMMAND PHILOSOPHY THAT SURVIVES FIRST CONTACT WITH A PEER.** Everything else is suicide by PowerPoint. New geometry is merciless: - 500+ km kill webs - 360°
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@CalumDouglas1
Calum E. Douglas
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It has sometimes been explained to me that the Second World War attacks by the German "wonder weapons" like the V1 pulse jet (essentially an early cruise missile) and V2 ballistic missile, where little more than a waste of resources and achieved very little. I am yet to be
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@fuecks
Ralf Fuecks
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Was der Niedergang der Deutschen Bahn und das schwindende Vertrauen in die demokratischen Institutionen miteinander zu tun haben. Der Staat nimmt so viel ein wie nie, Sozialabgaben und Schulden sind auf Rekordniveau, und dennoch knirscht es an allen Ecken & Enden.
@fritzfelgentreu
Fritz Felgentreu
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… ganz anders. Der schleichende Zusammenbruch der einst so stolzen Deutschen Bahn ist für all das ein besonders schmerzliches Symptom. So wird sie zugleich zum Symbol der Vertrauenskrise. Für mich als (Ex-)Politiker bedeutet das: Gerade… 7/11
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@fritzfelgentreu
Fritz Felgentreu
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Ein Boomer-Rant in elf Teilen: Ich sitze mal wieder in einem ICE der @DB_Bahn. Er wurde in Berlin am Hbf bereitgestellt und fuhr dort mit 16 min Vsp ab. Inzwischen liegen wir 52 min hinter dem Plan. Warum erzähle ich das? 1/11
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@salonium
Saloni
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I had a lot of fun making this choropleth map of property sales prices in Germany. Predictably, big cities have the highest property prices. This pattern is typical in many Western countries. But cities used to be affordable, and with lighter building regulations, they built
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@daniel_gugger
Daniel Gugger 888
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888 Peinlicher geht es nicht Ist jetzt schon lachen strafbar in Deutschland ?
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@GarettJones
Garett Jones
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Outside my area, but this is a topic that reality-based students of human flourishing (all 5 of us) should work on more
@KarolineGosling
Karoline Gosling
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This was peak female happiness. Change my mind.
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@connordavis_ai
Connor Davis
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I just read this paper called "Chain-of-Visual-Thought (COVT)" and it basically teaches VLMs to see and think at the same time not in text, but in continuous visual tokens. Here’s the wild part: Instead of forcing models to reason through words (which destroys all the
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@ShitpostGate
ShitpostGateway
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@Microinteracti1
Gandalv
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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 EU Opens “Territorial Swap Season” as Von der Leyen Floats Trading Alaska for Crimea. In a surprise statement that left diplomats choking on their coffee, Ursula von der Leyen reportedly announced that the EU is “open” to recognizing Alaska as Russian territory if it
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@MichaelCGlasper
Michael Glasper
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Fucking hell.
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@RosarotePanzer
Der rosarote Panzer
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GM
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