In 1982, B. M. Willmott Dobbie studied records from 3 English parishes spanning the 16th to 18th centuries and found that maternal mortality was ~30 maternal deaths/1,000 baptisms.
This is 100x the rate of maternal mortality today.
Prohibition lead to a huge decades long decline in alcohol consumption that outlasted the end of prohibition itself !
May 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Saw a lot of discourse about "Barstool Republicans". Barstool is owned by this guy:
> Chernin has donated >$100,000 to the Democratic Party, as well as hosting Barack Obama at his home for a fundraiser in 2013. He also supported Hillary Clinton in 2016.
For starters, thread claims Disney spends money on some things it wants to run, and if the special district is ended the county would have to pay for that.
But Disney pays "taxes" to special district, when the district no longer exists, Disney's tax money goes to the counties.
Apr 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Okay, so when are you going to start arguing that liberals should respect the gender binary ?
This of course gives the game away. The elite liberal tactic these days is to create an illusion of consensus and then claim that anyone disagreeing is "contrarian".
Nov 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
One take I see a lot is "fall in presidential approval rating is mainly about gas prices", which is based on observational studies showing approval goes down when gas prices go up. But afaict this is mainly about data availability, as gas prices data is easy to find.
It could very well be the case that other prices (like food) matter a lot too, its just we don't have a convenient way to run a study on that.
Nov 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
First 5 minutes of Wheel of Time: a woman is pushed by her mother into a mountain river. This is not something people do. It will lead to certain death in real life.
"not entering the rivers until absolutely necessary" is a real taboo in Himalayan mountain villages BTW, people have too many stories of family members being washed away.
Nov 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Its pretty weird that liberal politicians ignore the actual problem faced by black communities: which is that criminals who kill black people are more likely to go off scot free.
This is famously misunderstood and repeated in the claim that "death penalty is racially biased". Yes it is biased, in the sense that if a white person is killed, his killer is more likely to hang than if a black person was killed.
Nov 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine if we built dense cities where people could regularly socialize all through their life and not just 4 years.
