Had to look up bellend. Agreed.
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I would be nice if we would fund our own program like this locally.
We shouldn't need federal government to make our city nice, but I know there's the obvious problem of finding how to pay for it without raising taxes or cutting someone else's budget.
I don't know enough about the state or city budget.
I like the efforts to increase bike and walking trails.
Maybe we could get city officials to sneak this stuff into other projects.
But not too much because trees and mental health are indeed woke.
I'm sorry. I am one of those people driving 75.
Sing "I can't drive 55..."
But seriously, 55 is nuts.
I know everyone considers 75 too fast, but I am not weaving through traffic, always using a signal, and not doing that during snow/ice/etc, nor am I using my damn phone texting and posting on Facebook.
If everyone would actually pay attention, I'd prefer we all go 70.
When I read the headline, I thought: "this is what we're studying right now? Seems like some bigger problems...". Then I remembered I'm not the target audience for archaeology
Quick reminder, everyone struggles with wanting to be validated and downvotes by random Lemmy users around the world don't matter.
Take a breather, touch grass/snow and remember no ones opinion on here matters, especially mine 😉
Maybe the reason we've had a bunch of crashes all the sudden is that we SHOULD have fired all them before now? Maybe they are INDEED the geniuses, and WE are the stupid ones...
Also, I'm way too lazy to read or even try to find those memos, so I appreciate the cliff notes version. Pretty scathing.
I appreciate the clarification his videos usually bring on legal topics
Anyone use open source tools professionally or in your shop? Security Onion, Wazuh, etc?
This is not at all the copy cats I was looking forward to...
I still disagree.
All Muslims are terrorists and beat their wives then based on your logic.
You're welcome to an opinion, but putting the actions of a minority extremist group on everyone else is the definition of a few things. At the very least it doesn't help.
Also, if you're so angry at that group of people, how does it help further your position to lash out at other people also upset with them?
If you are just interested in judging anyone affiliated with something you don't like, you might have more in common with the abortion public shaming club.
Let's Play Date, Marry, Kill...with Roundabouts.
What are your thoughts as Indiana starts adopting these modern traffic control measures (Europe has been doing them since...forever)?
Most people I talk to either love or hate these intersections. For some reason, I can't find people who are indifferent to them very often.
According to the Carmel's city webpage: "Carmel is internationally known for its roundabout network. Since the late 1990’s Carmel has been building and replacing signalized intersections with roundabouts. Carmel now has more than 150 roundabouts, more than any other city in the United States."
"The number of injury accidents in Carmel have reduced by about 80 percent and the number of accidents overall by about 40 percent."
General PROs / CONs
- Up to a 90 percent reduction in fatalities
- 76 percent reduction in injury crashes
- 30-40 percent reduction in pedestrian crashes
- Reduces the severity of crashes
- Keeps pedestrians safer
- Roundabouts reduce the number of potential accident points within an intersection, 75 percent fewer conflict points than four-way intersections
- No signal equipment to install and repair, savings estimated at an average of $5,000 per year in electricity and maintenance costs
- Service life of a roundabout is 25 years (vs. the 10-year service life of signal equipment)
- Reduces pollution and fuel use
- 30-50 percent increase in traffic capacity, improves traffic flow for intersections that handle a high number of left turns, reduces need for turn lanes
- While roundabouts can handle moderate to heavy traffic volumes more efficiently than traditional intersections, they may experience congestion and delays during periods of extremely high traffic volumes or if not designed properly for the anticipated traffic flow
- Pedestrians and cyclists may face challenges navigating roundabouts, particularly multi-lane roundabouts with higher traffic volumes. Proper design considerations, such as providing safe crossing points, adequate sight lines, and dedicated pedestrian/cyclist facilities, are crucial to ensure their safety.
- Drivers unfamiliar with roundabouts may initially experience confusion or hesitation when navigating them, potentially leading to increased risks or delays until they become accustomed to the traffic patterns.
- Roundabouts generally require a larger footprint and more land area
https://www.in.gov/indot/traffic-engineering/roundabouts/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Up+to+a+90+percent%2Cpoints+than+four-way+intersections (CONs came from general searching, LLM compilation)
Indianapolis and the surrounding suburbs are implementing them more frequently now, how about your city?
Did you know that traffic circles are different from roundabouts? PA has a little comparison chart that was interesting (If you're into that sort of thing): https://www.penndot.pa.gov/PennDOTWay/pages/Article.aspx?post=24
I did low effort gpt 😉
Church Holidays: The Catholic Church mandated numerous feast days (e.g., Christmas, Easter, saints’ days) when labor was restricted. Estimates suggest 80–100 holidays per year in some places, but enforcement varied.
Sunday Rest: Work was generally prohibited on Sundays, adding about 52 non-working days.
Seasonal Workload: Agricultural work was highly seasonal. Planting and harvest times were extremely labor-intensive, while winter months involved less fieldwork but still required tasks like repairing tools, feeding animals, and processing food.
Some economic historians estimate that medieval peasants worked fewer days annually than modern industrial workers. However, 150 days seems too low, as it assumes every feast day and Sunday was fully work-free, which was not always the case.
Many peasants supplemented their farming with additional work (e.g., weaving, milling, carpentry) during "off" periods.
While feast days provided breaks, peasant life was physically demanding. Workdays could be long (often from sunrise to sunset).
Hunger, disease, and social obligations (such as corvée labor—unpaid work for the lord) made life challenging.
Despite rest periods, subsistence farming meant that food shortages and unpredictable weather could quickly lead to hardship.
Conclusion
The idea that medieval peasants had an easy work schedule with extensive holidays is partly true in the sense that they had more frequent breaks than modern 9-to-5 workers. However, their work was far more physically demanding, they faced food insecurity, and their "off days" didn't always mean leisure. The claim of a 150-day work year is likely exaggerated but does reflect the fact that medieval societies structured work differently from modern capitalism.