Vyzantinist

Vyzantinist t1_iwg9ebt wrote

Reply to comment by Zergzapper in Salt Lake City's city council voted in favor of a project to build a small community of tiny homes for people experiencing chronic homelessness! by Taintastic

> imagine trying to get clean when every night you are sleeping in a different place where it's not really safe well how bout you take a drink or a hit and now that problem is much less stressful. It's literally keeping them using just to keep them from a stress breakdown on the street which is of course also not a good mental health solution.

This so much. Normies really don't know how bleak and soul-crushing homelessness is. You'd have to be a lottery-odds level of person to get and/or stay sober when you're in that environment.

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Vyzantinist t1_irhj7t3 wrote

Reply to comment by fiendishrabbit in Did the first crusade impact significantly the war-making capacity of states like england, west and east francia? And did later crusades impose equal burdens, or was the distribution of this burden different for the 2nd and 3rd crusades? by Qazwereira

The Normans didn't really use combined arms as tactics 101; their play was normally just relying on their heavy cavalry charge to win the day. And they didn't develop their heavy cavalry tradition from the Romans, as Roman writers were astounded and impressed by the power and efficacy of Norman heavy cavalry. As of the battle of Dyrrachium, Roman cavalry still advanced to contact with a trot and used the lance with an overhand or underhand stabbing technique, whereas the Normans charged at length with lance couched. It wasn't until the reign of Manuel I that Roman cavalry were trained in the couched lance technique which, by then, had become standard in western Europe.

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Vyzantinist t1_irhihx1 wrote

Reply to comment by Wintersbone7 in Did the first crusade impact significantly the war-making capacity of states like england, west and east francia? And did later crusades impose equal burdens, or was the distribution of this burden different for the 2nd and 3rd crusades? by Qazwereira

To be fair, Alexios I wasn't expecting anything like a crusade. He simply asked the Pope to encourage western knights to head east to help the Byzantines in their struggles against the Turk. Pilgrims like Robert III of Flanders had previously sent knights to help the Byzantines, so Alexios was probably expecting if the Pope made appeals for the desperate plight of Orthodox Christians more western European knights would be willing to head east to fight for the empire.

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