The Off Topic Topic

[celedhring]

What's the difference then how are you charging a BEV if it cannot be plugged in?

They can be plugged in. "plugged-in electrics" can be either PHEVs (hybrids) or BEVs (pure electrics).

Yes, the whole thing can be a bit of a confusing letter soup.

[Tamas]

I would prefer electric if I had a convenient way to charge it home. But I dont, so if I were looking to buy I would go with a hybrid or just stick with petrol.

[celedhring]

I would prefer electric if I had a convenient way to charge it home. But I dont, so if I were looking to buy I would go with a hybrid or just stick with petrol.

My mom got a small hybrid and the mileage on that thing is really good, particularly for what she uses it (driving into town do shopping). She's spending way less in gas that she used to.

[Josquius]

If buying new then electric of some form, whether purely so or hybrid, is 100% the only legitimate way to go.

[Grey Fox]

Too bad CC is avoiding us but he could talk to us about is Ioniq 5.

[mongers]

Too bad CC is avoiding us but he could talk to us about is Ioniq 5.

:sad:

when did that happen?

[Grey Fox]

In early November because of Elon Musk & Berkut.

[mongers]

In early November because of Elon Musk & Berkut.

Thanks GF.

[Sheilbh]

Listening to a podcast with some historians talking about Ukraine and, in passing, they mentioned that there aren't many military or early modern specialists which was a bit of a problem.

And I was wondering whether that was specific to CEE and also why it happened? Is it just lack of interests from students which impacts hiring or is it from the bodies that fund research?

Struck me as a bit interesting and surprising because in my head while you have different specialists in different universities it seems odd to have what sounded like system wide shortages in the same areas across many institutions

[The Brain]

Hasn't military history been a backwater for decades? Kind of fell out of fashion in the 1960s? Might have gotten somewhat better in recent years maybe.

[Josquius]

Maybe given how it so dominated in earlier times it was thought to be "done" with little that could be added in contrast to other fields?

[DGuller]

I got the weirdest ad on Youtube.  Date Slavic women.  Wait, what?  Is this like a mail order bride thing?

Is it the one with "Slave Ick" women?  I posted about it a while back and reported it for human trafficking.

[Oexmelin]

Listening to a podcast with some historians talking about Ukraine and, in passing, they mentioned that there aren't many military or early modern specialists which was a bit of a problem.

And I was wondering whether that was specific to CEE and also why it happened? Is it just lack of interests from students which impacts hiring or is it from the bodies that fund research?

Struck me as a bit interesting and surprising because in my head while you have different specialists in different universities it seems odd to have what sounded like system wide shortages in the same areas across many institutions

Both of these things are linked to a similar thing, but with different effect: presentism. Caveat: this is mostly based on my experience in US and Canadian institutions. Europe may be different. I should ask ex-Mrs Oex. 

There is currently a tremendous demand in the current university model, across countries, for "relevant" historical knowledge, for which much of the more modern eras enjoy a favorable prejudice. It seems much more relevant, for instance, to talk about the Civil Rights era than it is to discuss 15th century Spain; and it is much more relevant to discuss race in 15th century Spain than, say, the rural economy of England in the 17th century.

History has never been immune to fads and fashions, depending on what era is deemed capable of answering today's questions about our present. (I don't think that's bad) I think it's just that multiple fads and fashions used to coexist at the same time, and university administrators used to be run by conservative people who enjoyed history and tended to resist those fads in some ways. Now, they are run by administrators who are desperate to be on the right bandwagon, which means that they grant hiring lines based on the potential to attract new students. So, history departments may very well ask for a new professor in 17th century England, but if their 2nd choice is 20th century US, or Latino/Latina history, that's the one that is going to be granted to the department. And that presentism is not limited to administrators either. In my previous institution, the real fault line in the department was between 20th c. historians, and everyone else - specialists of earlier times tended to show up for all department events (i.e., talks about 17th c. Ottoman empire and 20th c. Japan); historians of the 20th c. tended not to. The breadth of historical knowledge has really suffered; the production of 20th century history is so big that people now have micro-specialties, and can't see what the history of prior times could possibly contribute to their thinking.

As for military history, it has long been a field that was defined by its presentism: it was aimed at extracting lessons for contemporary armies; it was also seen, not without reason, as a terribly conservative field. The "social turn" of the 1960-1970s really pushed it to the side; the cultural turn of the 1980s-1990s put it to the grave, or left it to military colleges and pop history. Very few people in history departments now are military historians, and they tend to look askance at that field as somehow tainted by that demand of actual lessons. (Which, to be fair, is only a demand from military colleges - no reason why liberal arts colleges can't teach it from a different perspective). Left to their own devices, university departments would usually not hire military historians, which, in this case, goes against demand - for students tend to ask for classes about stuff they already know - military history (because entertainment), classics (for private school kids), the current historical setting of the TV series du jour, Presidents, and 20th century because media presence.

[mongers]

..snip ....

Interesting, thanks for that Oxy.

[Razgovory]

I got the weirdest ad on Youtube.  Date Slavic women.  Wait, what?  Is this like a mail order bride thing?

Is it the one with "Slave Ick" women?  I posted about it a while back and reported it for human trafficking.

I don't know.