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Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 21:00:56 JST Charlie Stross

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116232524241982831
Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)
Does this look familiar to you, too?
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  …For the northern hemisphere, fertiliser for next year’s growing season will be needed towards the end of this year. We can expect food prices to rocket. And in the UK, we have only a single fertiliser manufacturing plant left https://overcast.fm/+8dw8WNRF4
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  Seiðr (illuminatus@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2026 20:46:48 JST Seiðr
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  @Infoseepage @cstross Well, the Spanish War of Succession, the Austrian War of Succession, the Seven Years' War, and then the American Revolutionary War.
  
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