#System

Every headline this morning mentioned possible treatments for COVID. Yet when you read the actual story it quickly pivoted into a binary, "he said-he said" morass.As someone who has lived
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I work at a busy, high acuity community ED and trauma center that operates with single emergency physician coverage for most hours of the day. I literally could not do
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To be fair, this person has her chronology all messed up, but she's discussing a very specific infrastructural trauma that happened around ~2014, and I haven't seen anyone talk about
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Elon Musk is on record that he makes decisions using the same technique as Jeff Bezos.I found YouTube videos of them explaining it.A thread on thinking more clearly: This thread
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Maa Kali, Russia & UkraineA 7th Century Goddess Kali Idol, was found in Staraya Maina Village, RussiaStaraya Maina village in Ulyanovsk region was a highly populated city 1700 years ago,
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It amazes me that Tesla owners have no clue how Track Mode works 2/ Begin thread. Track Mode allows modification of a limited number of vehicle parameters. Notably absent is
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A thread on my editorial in @bmj_latest comparing the response to Covid-19 in South Korea and the UK. Early adoption of a “test, trace, isolate and treat” strategy was the
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Greek chief epidemiologist, Dr Tsiodras: “I wouldn’t like to be in the position of countries that opted for herd immunity strategies, before we knew much about this virus; before we
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Crazy to think we still usually install Windows to the C: Drive because otherwise some legacy software written before most of the people who'll read this tweet were born that
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Although I worked on disaster response for years, sometimes notional, sometimes actual, one in particular stayed with me. In the course of doing my mortuary affairs course then internship we
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#Lebanon ‘s citizens are angry & for good reason Many have lost their life savings Many have lost their jobs Everyone is looking for answers Everyone is looking to point
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so idk why but every time i see a japanese or white character being given darker skin tones, fuckers go "why? people would get angry if you whitewashed a black
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hot takethe school system is inherently ableist /srs this shouldn’t be a hot take but it is and i hate it so much. if you’re wondering why... three things schools
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We should want adjuncts to get paid more than TT/tenured faculty.A fair few comments on this come from TT/tenured folks saying the MLA recommends adjuncts would get paid more per
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a lot of people are messaging me saying their partners are trying to be supportive but have really firmly held beliefs about relationships being sacred between two people and there’s
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"The persecutors imagined such venomous concentrations of poison that even very small quantities would suffice to annihilate an entire population" #ReneGirard #scapegoatmechanism Thus, Trump who it to his followers homo
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