PhD candidate of History at Mississippi State University. Historian of Modern Grassroots Environmental Justice Organizations. HSS GEEC diversity officer.
NEW: The Texas State Board of Education just overhauled public school curricula to focus on Texas "exceptionalism," require Bible readings and whitewash racism. Its the culmination of a decadeslong push by Christian nationalists. #txlege
https://t.co/wn4c1sNmTH
No it is not - it gets everything wrong!
Streets were not permanently muddy wastelands. While not Constantinople, London had paved streets, street-cleaning, and even pollution regulations.
People did not all wear brown rags. Tudor clothing was often colourful.
Beds were not just loose straw. There were sheets.
Lighting was not endless cheap candles; and rooms were often painted.
Executioners did not wear masks all the times.
There were strict laws about animals walking around freely, especially pigs. Who also looked differently back then.
And most glaringly, there should be children everywhere. This was a period of high mortality, but also high fertility.
This is not historical reconstruction. It is ai slop, made by someone who used ai slop instead of books. - “Tudor grimecore”.
The only correct thing is that "Chloe" is an influencer, and they are not particularly bright people.
@janecoaston Which really screwed them up because then England denied the Russian ships access to the Med and the Suez and made them go all around the Horn making the ships so befouled by the time they got to East Asia they were useless.
NEW: Texas middle schoolers could be taught about a Christian revolutionary war movement that never existed. The so-called “Black Robe Regiment” is a favorite myth of Christian nationalists such as David Barton, who is advising a massive curricula overhaul https://t.co/5eS4YrGZEk
Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.
Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.
Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.
That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.
The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.
College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.
I think a giant imperial military blob with an unwieldy and overfunded warfare state making catastrophic tactical decisions by misusing expensive equipment in unsuitable conditions is among the most believable things in that entire movie