Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
There is a common view that medieval people adapted to high child mortality by becoming more emotionally distant from them.
Modern scholarship has demolished this: medieval people loved their children just as much as us, made vast sacrifices for them, and expected little in return.
So the @SevaUT is directionally right here in saying that medieval people went about permanently traumatised. Most people had three or four children, of whom one or two died. This was torment for them.
The shadow of death over English childhood did not lift with the passing of the Middle Ages. My great-grandmother, whom I knew well, was born in 1906, when 15% of children died in their first year, against 25% in the Middle Ages. My grandmother, who is still alive, was the only one of her several siblings to survive her first year. The past is very near.
Modern scholarship has demolished this: medieval people loved their children just as much as us, made vast sacrifices for them, and expected little in return.
So the @SevaUT is directionally right here in saying that medieval people went about permanently traumatised. Most people had three or four children, of whom one or two died. This was torment for them.
The shadow of death over English childhood did not lift with the passing of the Middle Ages. My great-grandmother, whom I knew well, was born in 1906, when 15% of children died in their first year, against 25% in the Middle Ages. My grandmother, who is still alive, was the only one of her several siblings to survive her first year. The past is very near.
Recent essay on this by @SCP_Hughes worksinprogress.co/issue/did-mediā¦
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Iām not sure when streeterville started feeling like a real neighborhood on Sunday afternoons, but it does!
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
This right-wing AI slop was somehow meant to be racist but it goes so unbelievably hard.
I have been singing āRajesh says no beef upon the grillā all day.
I have been singing āRajesh says no beef upon the grillā all day.
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
A bad year for two groups of people who think theyāre much smarter than everybody else ā the āvoting changes nothingā crowd and the āthis is the year to smash the two party system with independentsā crowd.
Sorry your brand of obnoxious cynicism lost, this must be a rough time for you.
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
The numbers are truly staggering.
Floridians voted to basically defund their local governments.
Floridians voted to basically defund their local governments.
Florida rural counties overwhelmingly voted for Amendment 3, but soon will be asking to be rescued from the effects.
Why should the rest of the state, including counties who even majority voted AGAINST A3, bail them out? Esp if the state doesnāt similarly bail THEM out?
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
Rabin, who said things like this, was assassinated by the kind of Jewish extremist that runs Israelās government today.
The late Yitzhak Rabin speaks about his partnership with Arab parties and the racist arguments against it. Less than a week later, he would be assassinated.
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
single-pay disaster insurance = massive subsidy to building in disasterland + busted budgets when disaster strikes
The new California insurance commissioner campaigned on a single-payer model for disaster insurance called āNatural Disaster Insurance for All.ā
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He rarely gets included in these lists for reasons I will let others speculate about but Brandon Johnson has both rhetorically aligned himself with YIMBYism and overseen significant parking reform and upzonings
America's two largest cities now have pro-housing mayors. Let's f*cking build.
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Some people seem to believe that all YIMBY reforms lead directly to measurable increases in production
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
amazing example of how front and side setbacks and reduced capacity ruin the street vibes AND deny people a backyard.
You could re-do the massing here so it goes up six stories, no front or side setbacks, and keep a yard in the back. A coworking cafe or something at the front.
You could re-do the massing here so it goes up six stories, no front or side setbacks, and keep a yard in the back. A coworking cafe or something at the front.
Whatās the best way to redevelop small single-family lots in LA? Because right now weāre getting developments like these, which are pretty far from courtyard urbanism haha.
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
El-Sayed may not be an exceptional electoral performer, but he is unusually intelligent for a senator
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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An amusing thing about getting older is younger people not always knowing what they came up with and what predates them
Iām getting āyas queenā from my 9 year old, and I know he means it as sassy Gen Alpha slang, but itās such an improvement over the nonsensical ā6-7ā that I canāt complain
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Daniel Kay Hertz retweeted
Putting it out there: 9 new senators, 50+ new House members, and ~20 presidential campaigns will all be staffing up over the next year. If you're young and want to work in Democratic politics, there won't be a much better time to jump in.
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