#Interesting

A young coworker of mine asked me an interesting question today... โ€œas a Puerto Rican and Dominican in America, do u consider yourself black?โ€ My answer was a resounding โ€œhell
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Interesting that the "free Tibet" crowd never talked about this history. Before 1959, Tibetan society was sooo dark 95% of Tibetans were serfs, they were born with lifelong debts, they
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Why Load Is (Lyrically) Metallica's Best Album: a thread by an english nerd with too much time on his hands disclaimer: i am only going to be discussing my personal
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The Significance of the Numbers on the Train (thread)#InfinityTrain #FinishInfinityTrain #RenewInfinityTrain So, I was inspired by this tweet a while back, and went down a mini-rabbit hole on number meanings.
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1/ Itโ€™s interesting that no one is defending academic conferences on the basis that attending allows engagement with transformative, brilliant papers they would not otherwise have encountered. The limited pushback
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Talking Keke business with some rider today. This guy tells me they pay N1,500 in various taxes per day. That's around N33k/month (working days) and almost N400k/annum. I asked of
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Under-utilised data here.I think it tells an interesting possible tale.Maybe people do respond to guidance and warnings.Maybe you donโ€™t need knee jerk laws.Maybe every time there is a spike you
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People keep saying itโ€™s because we wear wigs that donโ€™t match our hair texture and I find that so interesting bc itโ€™s almost like everyone โ€œforgotโ€ that Black Women are
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This is an interesting read especially with the growth of the far right in Ireland.They say here "it is remarkably easy for theorists to find โ€œevidenceโ€ of their crimes," which
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Decibels are interesting unit of measure. The scale is actually the bel scale named by Bell Telephone after Alexander Graham Bell and invented for measuring telephone signal power. A decibel
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So a thing I always knew about meetings which is now even more obvious when everyone is working remotely is that meetings are at least 90% about building working relationships
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As someone who strongly prefers static types, I can't believe I am saying this but I don't love the trend of dunking on dynamically typed languages as "merely" unityped/badly statically
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The seven deadly virtues that make a monster - A Monster Generation analysis thread:Atsumu's LustBokuto's GluttonySakusa's SlothHinata's Greed
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Struck up a conversation with the chap who cuts pineapple & other fruits at the Nairobi Carrefour where I shop. Seems he was puzzled, then surprised, that a customer would
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Last Winter, the @CdsnRcds organized a workshop to design a massive survey (69 questions) to examine Canadians' attitude toward foreign policy and national defence. The survey was deployed in August
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Q5: What are some examples you've seen and appreciated of brands who are creating and sharing content that is empathetic to the needs of their community? #ContentChat A5a: I love
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