Regular People Research Articles

Revitalize splenic functions. Following a splenectomy for trauma, a small amount of splenic autotransplantation was performed

IntroductionThe spleen is a responsible significant part of the immune system; after Splenectomy following trauma, the immune system changes; splenic autotransplantation can preserve the immune system after trauma and Splenectomy.BackgroundPatients can be protected from immune dysfunction by autotransplanting splenic tissues after splenectomy following trauma because their immune systems and spleens are changed. Patients can gain their immune function after splenic autotransplantation.MethodsPatient classification methods are into three categories, Group A, 6 cases with auto-translation; Group B, 6 cases without transplantation; Group C, seven regular people serving as the control.Aim of workThe aim of the work is not to compare outcome methods or compare types of autotransplantation; This work aims to document postoperative radiological, immunological, clinical, and hematological investigations. We concentrated on the results of investigations more than the types of operation or approach or types of autotransplantation.ResultsWe showed that, after comparing each group with normal individuals subjects, patients who did not undergo autotransplantation had significantly higher platelet counts, a more significant percentage of micronucleated reticulocytes, increased levels of naive B lymphocytes, changes in class-switched memory and class-unswitched memory B cells, and higher levels of PD1 on CD8 + T lymphocytes. Nevertheless, neither splenic autotransplant patients nor the average general population showed any appreciable variations in any of the parameters.ConclusionsSpleen’s activities with adequate hemocatheter activity and recovery of the immunological deficit after splenic autotransplantation.

CEOs and Political Donations: Are They Just Like Regular People?

CEOs and Political Donations: Are They Just Like Regular People?

Prophet Diagnostics and Cross Validation: Evaluating Forecasting Accuracy and Reliability in Stock Market Analysis

According to the research, there was a consistent increase in app and tool users on the stock market since 2014, as well as a drop in market entry restrictions. Tesla's stock performance between 2019 and 2020 shows a significant increase in app and tool-based trading which also lowering capital investment levels. This research helps to to have a better understanding of the consequences of regular people's increasing dependence on trading apps.

From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity by Robin Jensen (review)

Reviewed by: From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity by Robin Jensen Katherine Marsengill Robin Jensen From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity Oakland: University of California Press, 2022 Pp. xv + 244. $65.00. Robin M. Jensen's latest monograph on the emergence and development of Christian images over the first six centuries c.e is a clear and informative presentation on an important topic. Across eight chapters, Jensen describes the rise of Christian art within a culture filled with images of the gods and the tension in the endeavor of church authorities to deny or justify the use of images in their own religious environments. Jensen begins with essential historiography, reasserting what scholars over the last few decades have come to understand: contrary to early historians like Edward Gibbon and biased churchmen of the Protestant Reformation who misinterpreted the earliest Christian writings, early Christians were not, in fact, categorically anti-art, nor aniconic; they did not adhere to nor cite Hebrew Bible/Old Testament law, nor follow a perceived Jewish precedent. Jensen goes through the early texts condemning idols, clarifying the nature of the apologiae on worshiping false gods. Early Christians objected to idolatry on the grounds that pagans worshiped non-existent deities and thus, by default, worshiped man-made objects fashioned out of stone, wood, and metal. Idols were images of beings who did not exist, or, if they had existed, were regular people, long-dead, and mistakenly elevated to divine status out of misguided fondness or grief. Although rife with hyperbole and simplifications of pagan practices, the apologiae were aimed at persuading Christians about the danger of engaging with paganism and its associated vices. Arguments against worshiping images of the gods were not uniquely Christian, since non-Christian philosophers of the second and third centuries also recognized [End Page 255] the dilemma. Jensen's discussion of the matter provides larger context for a belief system that imagined a divide between the physical and spiritual worlds and the supremacy of an invisible and incomprehensible deity who could not be represented. Some early Christian writers did indeed shun images, believing that the physical world did not find parallels in the spiritual world and thus that representations of it had no use as substitutes for spiritual things. And yet, as Jensen reminds us, early Christians did have images. Surviving examples date to the early third century, while texts point to possibly earlier images. By the fourth century, Christian pictorial art was displayed in churches, shrines, baptistries, tombs, and private homes, despite some protestations. One justification can be found already in ancient Greek and Roman texts: images of the gods provided the means for the less sophisticated to worship their gods. Images were meant to honor them and to inspire worship but were not meant to be "portraits" of them. Defenses of Christian images well into the fifth and sixth centuries often have similar arguments, claiming that images are useful for instruction, especially for those who needed visualization to aid them in mental contemplation. However, as Christian authorities noted, from Eusebius to Iconoclasm-era writers, a confusion between the image and that which was represented was to be avoided. Jensen then explains how Christians admitted into visual art the representation of the invisible divinity in the form of Christ. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament encounters with an otherwise invisible God could be understood in Christian terms and depicted in art if one recognized these appearances as the divine Logos and pre-Incarnate Word—Christ—whose Incarnation made the divinity visible to humans. This fundamental shift valued seeing with one's bodily eyes as a means of obtaining knowledge of God. Christian art transformed from symbols, to standardized figures placed in abbreviated biblical scenes, to portraits of Christ and the saints believed to be based on real appearances. This brings the reader to the advent of two-dimensional Christian portraiture (icons) in the fourth century and the accompanying criticism by church authorities of congregants who may have been too adoring of such images. Jensen describes the various contexts in which such portraits would have been found—at tombs, at martyria, and...

“De-Fiddler-on-the-Roof-ization”

Abstract The ways in which István Deák’s scholarship influences East Central European Jewish historiography present a paradox. While on one hand he elevates a deeply human approach to history writing that centers on individuals and their choices and highlights contingencies and patterns of behavior, on the other he is preoccupied with the institutions that hold states together. In this way, Jews largely represent a Staatsvolk, a state people, in his work, whose allegiance to Austria-Hungary proved especially fateful following the monarchy’s demise. Yet, under his mentorship, students became disabused of ideologies and abstraction and study not nostalgic perceptions but Jews as regular people, earnestly and authentically.

Target return as efficient driver of risk-taking

PurposeThis paper examines whether target returns act as specific goals that impact risk-taking when individuals make investment decisions.Design/methodology/approachUsing an experimental setting, the authors assign either a low or a high target return to participants and ask them to make independent investment decisions as the risk-free rate fluctuates around their target return and, for some of them, becomes negative.FindingsBuilding on cumulative prospect theory, the authors find that the prevailing reference point of participants is the target return, regardless of the level of the risk-free rate. This result still holds even when the risk-free rate is negative, suggesting that (1) the target return drives risk-taking more than does a zero-threshold and (2) negative rates are limited as a tool to stimulate appetites for risk. In a follow-up study, the authors show that these conclusions remain valid when the target return is endogenously determined.Originality/valueThe authors' original approach, which pioneers the use of target returns in both the positive and negative interest rate contexts, provides insightful results about the “reach for yield” among regular people.

Smart MediBox - Patient Assisting Device

Abstract: Thanks to the development of pertinent technology, IoT is rapidly advancing in the medical sector. IoMT is a group of healthcare IT systems that are linked to a variety of medical devices for various purposes. IoMT's development has had a significant influence on healthcare in general, but especially for elderly and handicapped patients. In today's fast-paced world, even regular people require assistance with daily tasks. Helping them take their meds consistently each day without skipping a dosage is one such crucial task. The data will be processed depending on dose access by this medication monitoring system. Additionally, scheduling is done based on the patient intake report's expected accessibility. The suggested system combines an improved notification system with event scheduling based on a priority method. Real-time monitoring and a reminder system are built into the Smart Medibox design to remind patients to take their medications on schedule. It includes a cooling module and sensor that are managed by a microprocessor. The alert has information on date, time, and medicine description and may be programmed for taking numerous medications. It is made to be a small, portable gadget that makes it easy to connect to a secure cloud storage for more research. The gadget transfers all of the data to cloud storage whenit is Wi-Fi connected.

Rent Out Garage Space Application

In order to help you choose the ideal rental garage, this web application allows users to register individual garages. Also, we can locate your future garage rental in your desired location using the search view. This website is made to meet all of our requirements for purchasing, selling, or renting/leasing garages in India. We found the best opportunity to invest our entire life's worth of value here. Both the owner and the tenant do not need to knock on doors to discuss the specifics of the garage over the speaker. The best approach to find a garage is to use an online garage rental website or system, which also makes the renting procedure quick and simple. The majority of visitors to my website are regular people, so I aim to create a dynamic and user-friendly website that will be more beneficial to them. Instead of walking about and asking for a vacant garage, residents can reserve an available garage using this website well in advance of the date they plan to use it. When a user first wants to register and create an account and logs in, the system automatically displays the number of rented garages in specific locations. The user will be able to circumvent the garage broker, rent payment form, and registration form with the use of information such as owner name, garage address, and mobile number.

#EndtheSTIgma: An Exploratory Analysis of the 2019 HPV Awareness Day Conversation on Twitter & Instagram

ABSTRACT The current study explores the risk communication conversations on Twitter and Instagram in the context of the 2019 HPV Awareness Day, through the theoretical lenses of the stigma associated with HPV, HPV-related cancer, and the HPV vaccine. Our findings reveal that: 1) self and enacted stigma are present in these social media conversations, via nonprofits and official ambassadors, and via regular people; 2) other categories related to stigma, which can be seen as reactions to stigma and appeals to better individuals and society (i.e. stopping stereotypes) also emerged in these conversations, via official and not official sources, pro and against vaccine discourses; and 3) the same categories emerged from the data via both platforms, but differences exist in terms of narratives and messaging. Practical implications are discussed.

Hybrid Renewable Energy Generator with IOT Monitoring

Solar power plants need to be monitored for efficient power output. This aids in when restoring optimum energy output from power generation while being on the lookout for concerns such as defective solar panels, damaged connections, and dust accumulation on panels that reduce performance. Here, we propose an automated Internet of Things-based system for monitoring solar and wind power that provides automatic power monitoring from anywhere over the Internet. This system automatically detects the solar panel's output and sends information via the internet to an IOT system. Here, we used an IOT platform to send energy-generating parameters to an IOT platform server via the Internet. IoT-based controllers are the key components of the framework. This will promote preventative assistance, identification of the cause, and a true inspection of the plant that can sustain ongoing assessment. Nowadays, the frameworks for sustainable energy sources are emerging as the best way to produce power. As technology advances, the cost of sustainable energy source equipment is decreasing overall, enabling large-scale solar-powered photovoltaic setups. We developed a model for the use of a practical IoT strategy to screen a sun-oriented evaluation of the performance of a solar and wind power system with open-source resources and tools like Arduino and Ubidots. A SaaS (Software as a Service) platform called Ubidots gives a web-based area for tracking the generating parameters. Ubidots offers all services at lower charges, saving you money on website planning and maintenance. We concentrated on creating a system that required the least amount of effort and had an easy-to-use interface so that regular people could install rooftop solar-powered plants and screens without relying on organisations that provide administrative support.

RELATED INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RULES BY PROPORTIONALITY PRINCIPLE IN HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL LAW

The enormous number of blatant infringement of the principles of global helpful regulation and the experiencing endured by regular people during the direct of military tasks prompted the need to contemplate giving lawful means and instruments to foster worldwide security for regular citizens and regular citizen objects during furnished clashes and to rebuff every one of the people who perpetrated these infringement and consider them responsible, whether they were pay or It was criminal for the person.
 Along these lines, worldwide compassionate regulation oversees various essential rules that states should maintain. These standards are among the essential wellsprings of the law of furnished struggle, the most conspicuous of which is the rule of proportionality. Proportionality is a major standard in global regulation that expresses that the authenticity of a not set in stone by regarding the harmony between the goal And the means and technique used to accomplish it, as well as the outcomes of this work. This rule infers the commitment to survey the setting prior to deciding the lawfulness or lawlessness of an activity. This assessment is the obligation of those accomplishing the work. In case of conflict or uncertainty, the courts can evaluate current realities and accordingly decide its lawfulness.
 Proportionality is critical in evaluating the contention for military need while surveying the legitimateness of the utilization of equipped power. It applies specifically in instances of real individual or aggregate self-protection, in instances of a state's plan of action to outfitted power to reestablish public request and security in the midst of inward unsettling influences and in instances of global and non-worldwide furnished clashes.

SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER

Every average person has the ability to see, hear, and respond to their surroundings. Some unfortunate people are without this significant blessing. These people primarily include the deaf and dumb, who interact with others by using sign language. Yet, since not all common people can understand their sign language, communicating with regular people is a significant limitation for them. Also, this will make it difficult for members of the deaf and dumb communities to engage with others, especially when they want to participate in educational, social, and professional settings. The goals of this research are to create a sign language translation system for hearing or speech challenged individuals utilising deep learning and neural networks to help those who are deaf or have trouble speaking or hearing communicate with others. The model utilised in this classification assignment is a pretty simple Convolutional Neural Network implementation for the methodology (CNN). This exploits the convolutional property, which was primarily developed for the analysis of visual imagery. Three layered CNNs were trained and tested in real time using segmented RGB hand motions. With the help of a personal device, such as a laptop webcam, simple photos of the hand were used to construct the image dataset for each gesture. I was able to get training accuracy of roughly 89% and testing accuracy of 98.5% with this CNN model. Keywords : Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Gesture Recognition, Open CV, TensorFlow

Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato.

Although Feeding the People is ostensibly a book about the potato, its primary interest is when and why the everyday eating habits of regular people became a matter of concern to modern states. The book is wide-ranging. It provides evidence that wild potatoes were gathered and eaten thirteen thousand years ago in present-day Utah (where “funeral potatoes” are now the unofficial state dish) and documents the centrality of potato cultivation to Andean cultures since at least 7800 BCE. It records how the overthrow of the Incan empire in the sixteenth century put the potato into global circulation and highlights this food product’s place in state projects to change consumer habits in late twentieth-century China. But the book’s strength lies in its argument that it was during the eighteenth century that European countries in particular began to see the diet of the lower orders of the population as central to national strength and security.

Analyzing the Occupational Sigma of Sport Athletes in China

In today's environment, hatred toward athletes is becoming increasingly frequent among regular people. They are negatively affected. PE teachers, on the other hand, are perceived as "laborers" by the general population. According to ancient Chinese ideas, hardworking individuals reign over others in some places, such as China. In reality, this cultural inheritance of discrimination persists to this day, and is also the cultural gene of "stigmatization" of Chinese sports practitioners. As a result, athletes are seen negatively. Consider how people perceive and value athletes, as well as how others interact with them in sports. They are, on the other hand, athletes who compete in sporting events. Allowing them to attend university is no longer required. Others were aware of the situation as it grew. Despite this, no one is doing anything to stem the tide. This essay will illustrate how this bias impacts individuals and athletes, as well as how we may assess and tackle the problem using macro, meso, and micro aspects.

Советские танкисты в Испании в 1936–1937 гг. (по документам РУ РККА)

Introduction. The article considers the problem of the soviet tankers participation in the Spanish Civil War in its initial period. Methods and materials. The study is based on documents of the Intelligence Directorate of the People’s Commissariat of Defence of the Soviet Union. They became available after the publication of the first three volumes of the eight serial edition “Red Army and the Spanish Civil War (1936– 1939)”. Analysis. It is emphasized that the first group of Soviet tankers arrived in Spain on October 13, 1936, together with a batch of T-26 tanks (50 in total). On October 29, a tank company, which in a short time prepared the missing crew members from among the Spaniards, took part in a combat offensive operation in the Madrid area. According to documentary evidence the effectiveness of the combat use of tanks was minimal and was a result of the unwillingness and inability of the Spanish infantry, including its command staff, to act together with tanks. The documents characterize the T-26 tank as a reliable, hardy, easy-to-handle vehicle, superior in all technical characteristics to light tanks of German and Italian production, but with unsuccessful turret geometry, with weak armor, with an imperfect design of the turret swivel mechanism, with an unusable radio antenna. The article considers presented in the documents problem of the moral, political, psychological and physical condition of soviet tankers in Spain. The documentation also notes high level of military discipline, gives examples of heroic deeds of tankers, primarily members of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). At the same time attention is drawn to cases of excessive caution of individual commanders bordering on cowardice. An important place in the documents is given to the physical condition of tankers who find themselves in unfamiliar climatic and social conditions as well as in terms of a completely different food ration. It is noted that almost 100% overwork of personnel associated with continuous participation in hostilities, accompanied by various diseases. Results. The article emphasizes the importance of the direct participation of Soviet tankers in the hostilities of 1936–1937. It made it possible to prevent the military defeat of the Spanish Republic at the stage of creating a regular People’s Army. Key words: Spanish civil war, soviet military aid, tanks, tankers, combat activity, overwork, diseases.

Social differences in the sports behaviour of the Swiss population across time

Changes in sports behaviour and activities over the last decades are often attributed to developments of individualisation and differentiation in society. Existing empirical studies confirm that sporting activity is increasingly differentiated, with the proportion of regular sport-active people growing, as well as access improving for those previously less well represented, for example, women and older people. However, more men than women and more younger than older people are active in sports clubs (Lamprecht et al., 2020). This lecture will consider the extent to which social differences and inequalities in sporting behaviour have decreased in the Swiss population over recent decades. The underlying processes of exit and entry, age, cohort, and period effects are also examined.
 Mayer’s life course approach (1990; 2009) is the theoretical and methodological framework for the investigation of change processes in contemporary history, where “social structures and their changes can be partially reconstructed from individual trajectories” (Mayer, 1990, p.8). Changes in modern sport can therefore be reconstructed through personal longitudinal data and its aggregation. In 2019, this study gathered the trajectories of sport and physical activities of a total of 1,456 people living in Switzerland aged 15 to 76 years using a retrospective telephone survey. For the time-historical analyses, age cohorts of those born 1943 to 1950, 1951 to 1960, through to those born 1981 to 1990 were constructed. Information on sporting activities over the life course from childhood to the present from the periods 1950s to 2010s was then chronologically classified.
 The analyses confirm existing research that shows older people practice sport activities in clubs less frequently. This negative age effect in club sport can be seen across all age cohorts and time periods (all p < .001). Binary logistic regression analyses also indicate that this age effect is most pronounced, with an OR of 0.35, in the youngest age cohort born 1981 to 1990, whereas in the oldest cohort born 1943 to 1950, shows OR = 0.67. In recent decades, more child and adolescent girls have gained access to club sport, with a decline in the gender difference from approximately 22 percentage points in the 1950s/1960s to approximately 6 percentage points in the 2000s/2010s. A positive age effect can be observed in self-organised sporting activities. This is more pronounced in the younger age cohorts, OR = 2.72, than in the older, OR = 1.77.
 These historical analyses demonstrate that age differences in organisational forms of sport remain, but that gender differences in club sport have been minimised, particularly in childhood and adolescence. In addition, the effects have tended to become greater in recent years and changes in the forms of organisation tend to become more significant over time.
 References
 Lamprecht, M., Bürgi, R. & Stamm, H. (2020). Sport Schweiz 2020. Sportaktivität und Sportinteresse der Schweizer Bevölkerung. Bundesamt für Sport BASPO.
 Mayer, K. U. (Ed.). (1990). Lebensverläufe und sozialer Wandel. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 31[Special issue].
 Mayer, K. U. (2009). New directions in life course research. Annual Review of Sociology, 35, 413–433. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134619

RNN LSTM-based emotion recognition using EEG signals

Emotion, a representation of the human state of mind, plays an important role in day-to-day human life and helps one make good decisions. A typical way to understand human emotion is by observing a person's facial expressions and modulation of speech, and it can be categorized as sad, angry, happy, fearful, and so on. Emotion recognition using Brain Computer Interface (BCI) systems is beneficial for patients suffering from paralysis, autism, and mental retardation who cannot express their emotions like regular people. In this paper, after analyzing several data mining algorithms and various Neural Network models such as Convolution Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), and the Bi-directional RNN it has been proposed that Recurrent Neural Network-Long Short-Term Memory (RNN-LSTM) based emotion recognition using Electroencephalography (EEG) signals provides a better result. The main purpose of this paper is to introduce models which can work better than the existing ones on the K-EmoCon dataset. The metrics used in this paper are valence and arousal. The proposed RNN-LSTM model achieves a valence accuracy of 69.85% and an arousal accuracy of 45.07%. This model improves the accuracy of emotion detection on the K-EmoCon dataset. This approach achieves 4% more accuracy when compared to existing models such as the Convolution-augmented Transformer.

Світовий досвід налагодження та розбудови системи державного управління процесами цифровізації: інституційний базис і ресурсне забезпечення

The aim of the article is to generalize the global experience of setting up and developing a system of public administration of digitalization processes, focusing on the institutional basis and resource provision. Analyzing, systematizing and summarizing the scientific works of numerous scholars, also taking into account the dynamic trends of deepening globalization and neo-industrialization, conclusions are drawn about the constant development and active use of new mechanisms and means by highly developed countries in the implementation of digital transformation of the economy. As a result of the study, it was found that the system of public management of digitalization processes is built in accordance with the established institutional basis (existing regulatory framework; adopted strategies, target programs, conceptions, projects). On the example of numerous highly developed countries, the progressive spread of e-government in the system of public regulation of the digital transformation of the economy is underlined, which provides for the transfer of a number of administrative services to the information and communication format, the creation of a system of electronic interaction of public authorities, the formation of digital platforms for communication of the regular people, business, and the State institutions. It is emphasized that despite the absence of separate bodies in the system of the State power, some countries create non-government institutions to organize the digital transformation of the economy. It is proved that an important structural component of the national policy of digitalization is resource provision, and first of all, the accumulation of financial and investment resources through investment funds (agencies), banking structures, credit organizations, and other institutions. The priority object of the State policy for the development of the digital economy sector is considered to be institutional and infrastructural support. In this context, an important role of research structures in the development of digitalization of the economy is highlighted. Prospects for further research in this direction should be considered to determine, in accordance with the successful experience of highly developed countries, other priority areas of public regulation of the digital economy sector, taking into account organizational, economic, technological, and other features of digital development.

At the origins of the Norwegian detective: Murder in Maurits Christopher Hansen’s prose

This article discusses the function of the murder motif in M. C. Hansen’s prose. It shows that this motif is strongly related to the author’s quest for novel ways to represent reality, his ambition to portray the private lives of everyday Norwegians, and his goal to illustrate the moral development — or, on the contrary, the degeneration — of his characters. A crucial plot-forming device, the motif of murder is frequently combined with the motif of insanity as retaliation for the committed crime. It is possible to see how a critical view of modernity gradually replaces the distinct religious pathos of Hansen’s early prose (Den gale Christian (The Mad Christian), Keadan, eller Klosterruinen (Keadan, or the Abbey Ruins), Novellen (The Short Story), Den myrdede brudgom (The Murdered Groom)), inevitably leading to the emergence of a new kind of hero. The nature of this hero is determined by the surroundings and environment, the narrative becomes more psychologizing, and the interest in daily life takes the place of the theme of the moral revival (Jutulskoppen (The Troll Mountain) and Mordet på Maskinbygger Roolfsen (The Murder of Engine Maker Roolfsen)). Hansen’s writings from this time period are distinguished by a tragic perspective. The notion of a moral revival of man loses its appeal to the author. He feels that profit and vanity have replaced love, and that true feelings are doomed to vanish. The themes of mistrust between close people, the corruption of the ruling class, the oppressed position of the people, and the inability to escape from social oppression take on a new significance. We discover that Hansen’s interest in the everyday and private lives of regular people is linked to his search for artistic research tools, whereas the motifs of murder and crime investigation aid the writer in creating a vivid and accurate picture of contemporary Norwegian society while also making his narratives more entertaining.

The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife

The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife Zoe Hu (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution (Molly Crabapple) [End Page 54] Love is the ultimate value, and love is under threat. That is the rumor we good, secular citizens are hearing, at a time when capitalism's fatal drag on human affections has become harder than ever to ignore. Love is being lost to modern promiscuity, to social alienation, to the degraded hours of work and separation that spread, like static, between the members of your average American family. If only there was a way to save love—and them! Well, respond the reactionaries: the way to rediscover true feeling and value lies in tradition—in, more specifically, tradlife. "Tradlife" is the handy neologism for a recent set of attitudes and lifestyles devoted to glorifying the nuclear family and its jolly scenery; it is often promulgated by the new right, though followers retain a confusing span of affiliations. Even as tradlife looks backward, its pursuit and its rites are communicated mostly over social media in role-playing and image-making, the principal languages of such platforms. Followers post photos and videos of their ostensibly traditional families, wreathing their content with artful connotations of romance, safety, and leisure. Wives narrate to cameras the good fortune they've found in being kept women and living alongside stoic breadwinners; they publish pictures of their houses and vacations, which are visibly expensive. The twist that makes tradlife a phenomenon of our times is that it also includes earnest criticisms of life under capitalism. Many tradlifers are young women who hate work and celebrate arrangements where men rescue their wives from the professional realm: "When my friend's mom first started dating her husband," one viral tweet reads, "he said 'Stay with me, marry me, and you'll never have to work again.'" Only tradition can salvage love from modern indignities and the early-morning commute. Like a trapdoor, the idea swings open to reveal a baby-pink fantasy too fragile and nostalgic to be taken in the open air. Regular people preoccupied with bills, healthcare premiums, and rising rents will find much of the tradlife lifestyle to be out of reach. That paradox is what makes it such potent social media fare: tradlife is, at bottom, perpetuated by "influencers" who [End Page 55] know how to make others feel desirous and frustrated in equal measure. It is a menacing advertisement jingle, for a product people may not want or be certain exists. By describing the misery of work, tradlife ennobles itself. But as an ethos it also maintains a willful stupidity about modern capitalism's historic dependence on the family, a constitutive structure of capitalism, through which property, debt, and economic interest are all consolidated (it was Milton Friedman, after all, who wrote that "the ultimate operative unit in our society is the family"). As a concept, "the family" has worked even harder than "the individual" to overshadow our ethical obligations to other people. But few have use for notions of society anymore, defined as it is by unpredictability and fear of rising crime. We want only securitized intimacy—the happy assurance of a shared mortgage. ______ Like all lore, tradlife has a central hero: the tradwife is a woman who abandons the workforce and retreats indoors to care for her husband. Unlike the suburban ideal of the 1950s, with its white broods of children, the women in these videos are only sometimes mothers. This is perhaps because babies can place strain on the tradwife's reigning aesthetic: a gauzy brand of femininity where everything, but especially marriage, is meant to be easy. Roles are spontaneously desired because housewifery is now, unlike last time, a choice to be plucked out and guarded jealously from alternatives. In their videos, tradwives drift slowly through minimalist rooms and narrate their days (morning supplements, laundry) in sedate tones: "I fill up Luke and I's [sic] water bottles to make sure we're hydrated." Perhaps it's the nature of the genre—"daily routine" videos are popular online—but the tradwife's schedule always seems viciously regimented. Unpredictability and genuine surprise are rare, as are appearances by other people...