#General

- On Twitter, the general consensus is “Don’t date if you’re broke”- In real life, I have seen actually ‘broke’ couples working really hard, making big decisions with love.Witnessed a
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I'm seeing some calls for olive branches & empathy from the left, to try and "get back to normal". There's at least three problems with this, two of them justice/ethics-based,
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I want to seed a differently geared discussion about the purpose of university off the back of this thread. I teach lit studies and write in academic and non-academic fora.
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Am returning to an important subject-are magistrates representative of the people? New judicial diversity stats have been published today & its not looking pretty. On ethnic diversity JPs seem to
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tw: sexual harassmentspeaking as an ace person who's not interested in sex at all, i just wanted to talk abt something that's been on my mindhow people (mostly, men) blame
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I am lucky to be at a similar kind of institution, Stanford, which rescinded their request for money. Bravo. But I think the general problem is one that happens with
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“Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/politics/trump-russia-justice-department.html A lot of people
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UNPOPULAR OPINION: On our scriptures, their translations and criticismRather than accepting our history, our culture, our traditions we have become more judgmental of it. We criticise our own scripture without
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My brilliant colleagues @C_BruceLockhart and @BobHaslett illustrate some important points here:• There are major doubts over the Chinese numbers • But there’s less doubting the general pattern — largely containing
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why when I pressed the #pocforcorpse tag it was mad white latina's pretending to be POC talking bout they white passing but *insert something that isnt a race here* lol.
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Dr Jill Gordon @jejigor sharing a pilot project to help doctors transition to retirement. It was well received by the participants & created lots of food for thought (& some
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Story time!So, I have a student, who is new to our school this year, that came in VERY skeptical about faith and religion. Basically wasn’t looking forward to religion class
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Who the hell thought that GPT-3 could be used in a healthcare setting and more importantly what about the way we talk about language models gives people that idea?https://twitter.com/futurism/status/1321191940784836609 This
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It's been a while since I've talked about this unsolicited advice thing, and now seems like as good a time as any.So read on for a quick overview of when
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Okay TTRPG people I keep seeing graphics go by for either GenCon or for actual play stuff so I’m gonna teach y’all a few things as someone who doesn’t know
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tom wambsgans = spy (or alternate title succession / spooks shared universe theory): a thread as i am sure you all know, tom wambsgans of succession is excellently played by
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