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@Lady yeah which is why my feelings are mixed instead of just being against them basically

Quote from https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/11/15/day-300/ with more links after the summary

Public transit funding, electrical grid upgrades & expanded access to broadband are all being funded by this package which I’m happy about

Not personally thrilled by the amount of $$ going to highways and roads but I’m not surprised its in there and it will help some people so whatever

«Biden signed the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan into law – the largest federal investment in infrastructure in more than a decade…In the House, Democratic leaders expect to vote on the roughly $2 trillion climate, safety net, and tax package this week and send it to the Senate…If the social safety net and climate bill passes the House and Senate, the total increased infrastructure spending as a share of the economy will eclipse Roosevelt’s New Deal.»

@RadiantEmber like 90% of the walk there is on a mixed use path in the park tho, which is v nice :D

@RadiantEmber the closest grocery store is a little under a mile, so usually 15 minutes or so to get there. I prefer to take the bus back, since walking that far with a whole load of groceries can get a bit uncomfortable but I have walked home plenty of times when the transport schedule hasn’t worked out (the bus route has very convenient stops near both me and the store but it comes about once every 45 min)

@Corina@weirder.earth is there one person who’s both gluten free and vegan or could you make separate a gluten free thing & vegan thing?

@Lady haha yes that is an unfortunate byproduct of being a history major

@Lady its still bad form to not use the standard terminology in an introductory level textbook — like avignon papacy should be on the vocab list not omitted entirely (its self explanatory enough to be forgivable, but it makes me less willing to let the ambiguous language slide)

I also dislike textbook choice to list a whole bunch of historical critiques without confirming to the reader which are accurate / to what extent bc I feel that the reader will naturally assume they’re fact. I understand brevity is a challenge with these kind of texts but it still irritates me

I’m not like, pro Avignon but:
a) they aren’t *that* much worse than plenty of non-french popes, like there are plenty of 70 yr runs of shitty Roman popes
b) lets be honest the whole thing was at least 60% Rome being OUTRAGED that they weren’t being treated like they were the center of the world anymore and, smarting at the loss of social capital (as well as probably some literal capital, pilgrims were a lucrative business) deciding that obviously the popes MUST be puppets to the french king to decide to reside in France because there was no other possible reason a pope might voluntarily leave Rome

@Lady and then they go back to talking about french kings and I was just sitting there like ‘wait what the hell’

@Lady something along the lines of ‘[political setup] resulted in the papacy being moved to Avignon in 1309. The resulting period was called the Babylonian Captivity and was widely criticized for….’

@Lady it’s a short passage, so it only gets proper nouned once. But basically yeah

@Lady except its not the default term as far as i can tell — every other class i’ve taken uses Avignon Papacy in all the modern materials

@Lady I’m well aware of the history of the term which, which is why I think it’s an oddly political choice to use as the default term in a modern textbook

@Lady i mean yeah but like, it’s still weird to it the Babylonian Captivity without any qualification in a supposedly neutral source