Jesse Harber

The American/British food debate is played out.

The real hot button topic is Sephardi or Ashkenazi food

Cabbage Cabbage is the historic Ashkenazi vegetable Before the potato, it was the only vegetable, - apart from carrots. Every shtetl smelled intensely of cabbage. It was cooked in various ways, usually boiled or braised, often with onion. A common flavouring was caraway; sometimes a little white wine was added; often vinegar and sugar gave a sweet and sour flavour. It was partnered with apples and sometimes with potatoes, mush-rooms, or chestnuts, and it was used in soups and as a filling for strudel and blintzes.

Gonna take the bait and say there’s no contest. Sephardi food ranges from North African to Persian, Indian, and others of the world’s great cuisines. Whereas, per Claudia Roden:

A philosopher has hitherto only interpreted a diaper in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Dads make diaper changes, but they do not do it as they please; they do not change diapers under self-selected circumstances, but respond to diaper circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Remnants of past feedings weigh like a nightmare on the diapers of the living.

Chat, is it good if my CEO is a Chinese room?

Not my area but I know our engineers fret about drainage. The roadway carries runoff along the kerbs and into the stormwater system. Changing the size/shape of the roadway or removing it requires engineering another solution.

Got it. So another victim of bizarrely high infrastructure costs.

That’s so strange. Does NYC have no geometric designers on staff, or is it a matter of priority?

What is the Jewish relationship to places that expelled us or made us flee? I don't even know. But it's not nothing, you know?

Extraordinary to see the gap between how both pro- and anti-Trump Americans are talking about Afrikaners, and how almost anyone talks in South Africa.

Antis, I know you think you’re helping but we generally frown on racial abuse in South Africa, even against your political opponents.

I can’t begrudge anyone making the choice they feel is best. I’m a multiple migrant, presently back in SA with no plans to move, but if I was unhappy or scared then why wouldn’t I try my luck?

Crooks and liars have convinced people that SA is no place for them. They’re the problem imo

Did you see the documentary, the Boers at the End of the World? I thought it was excellent, and very sympathetic to the community that’s there

No disagreement from me there

So did extra-democratic rule! Nonetheless they both took forms after 48 that I think are qualitatively different to what came before.

Re the two-way influence: did you read Karayiannides on Musk and the intertwined socio-technical histories of the US and SA? I thought it was fascinating.

And spatial means. Apartheid was a novel, racialised regulation of space as much as anything else. Influenced by US ideas of suburbanisation and urban renewal.

I regret that this thread was how I had to learn about your book but now I want to read it. I can’t find a hard copy in South Africa. Is there an ebook?

Don’t threaten me with a good time

IIRC this was a signature Noah Smith opinion. In the same tweet as saying Cuba was better off under Batista than Fidel.

Know Your Enemy did an early ep on it which is a nice rundown.

Have you read Hirschman’s Rhetoric of Reaction?

Broke: taking selfies at the fish counter in la Boqueria

Woke: getting there at opening time and the avocado man already has some good ones set aside for you

Museum plaque of a news clipping: 1985 had at least 1000 "chameleons" Political staff PARLIAMENT - More than 1000 people officially changed colour last year. They were reclassified from one race group to another by the stroke of a Government pen. Details of what is dubbed "the chameleon dance" were given in reply to Opposition questions in Parliament. The Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Stoffel Botha, disclosed that during 1985: • 702 coloured people turned white, • 19 whites became coloured, • One Indian became white. • Three Chinese became white. • 50 Indians became coloured. • 43 coloureds became Indians. • 21 Indians became Malay. • 30 Malays went Indian. • 249 blacks became coloured. • 20 coloureds became black. • Two blacks became "other Asians! • One black was classified Griqua. • 11 coloureds became Chinese. • Three coloureds went Malay, • One Chinese became coloured. • Eight Malays became coloured, • Three blacks were classed as Malay, • No blacks became white and no whites became black, The Star, 21 March 1986

tfw your social categories are definitely ontological

Think that’s when Burawoy was there too?

I just finished watching the extraordinary Say Nothing, which gave me a renewed appreciation for the miraculousness of SA’s transition and demilitarisation.

Could be, but there really were paramilitary training schools for children. Still are, in fact. The documentary Fatherland is well worth tracking down.

Hah, can you imagine a Jewish school making kids fight for their food?

You’re right, I’m using the word too generally. My understanding is that he went to a violent, militaristic veldskool of the sort that I associate with Afrikaner nationalism—but to be fair I don’t know if they were actually drilled with propaganda.

Apparently he was sent to veldskool which, sure, not the Hitler Youth. But a bit of walking and a bit of quacking there.

Roland Postma and the Young Urbanists. You’ll probably find them at the Bree Street closure tomorrow morning.

Marcela Guerrero Casas at Local South.

I expect they are reporting on volume and total value of transactions as a key metric for VCs