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This week on the blog: Our look at the structures of life for peasant farmers continues with children and childrearing.

We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
acoup.blog/2025/08/08/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing
This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last …
acoup.blog
August 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I can only imagine morale in the military is great given that they're watching people they've served with for years and years and who have busted their asses getting thrown out with no benefits and no retirement despite having earned it and qualifying for it.
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Trump is the kind of guy who yanks his Internet cable when he starts losing.
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Someone pointed out R/conservatives full of posting at 9 am Moscow time and that makes me feel slightly better
March 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Weird, I don't remember rushes on the store to buy eggs. Weird how the price has gone up as well.
February 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I rarely post but I will this

I was looking for some information earlier for my students and I ended up finding out that the information for the census in 1860 is currently being 403'd. I checked with others and it's happening to them as well.

www.census.gov/library/publ...
1860 Census: Agriculture of the United States
Agriculture by state, territory, county, crops, diary, exports, farms, horses, land, live stock, machinery, seeds, tools, trade, trees, value, wine, wool, etc.
www.census.gov
February 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I am a refugee from Twitter and hope to be more positive in this place. The world is hard to be positive in right now. It's strange to realize you're the optimist in the room because you start to lose it.
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