#Years

It's been a year since I visited my native Mexico The other day my wife scolded me: buddy asked what I missed most; I immediately answered "the food" (right answer:
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Has @BorisJohnson realised yet that for his anti-obesity drive to be sustainable and effective, he will need to take a v tough stance against US trade lobby (and the businesses
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Complacency at its finest. America was the global Empire, still is. But who would have thought the then Shek led 400 million weak men of the east was remodeled soon
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So my two favorite companies (Stripe and @twilio) published a case study together about everyone's favorite topic, credit card authorization rates.https://stripe.com/newsroom/stories/twilioI want to zoom in on what creates a tenth
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Sattankulam case hearing - Justice PN Prakash: A competent APP must be appointed to assist the police in custodial deaths case. Judges unable to hear DSP Anil Kumar properly on
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Free Stuff Thread:Silent movie watching does NOT have to be expensive. Here's a list of free and legal streaming resources:The NFPF Screening Room (it has HELL'S HINGES)https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room
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In the 2001 recession, my parents lost everything, marriage included.My dreams felt like they were slipping away; I was depressed, angry and had nowhere to turn.This is a story about
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THREAD: When white supremacists stormed the Capitol waving confederate flags, they followed a long history of racial terror and state sanctioned violence. Erasure of this domestic terrorism has upheld white
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Nice article in Caixin Global today about Chinese power rationing. It's paywalled, so I will summarize the key points for the curious with notes in parentheses. (1/15 thread).https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-12-28/cover-story-why-the-l
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What if I told you that I've actually been enslaved? So no one is paying attention, huh? Sorry about how long it's taking to unpack this, but I'm really reliving
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This Day in Labor History: December 10, 1789. Moses Brown, a Rhode Island businessman, hired Samuel Slater to build an English-style factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This began the Industrial
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No-one has been "banned", & it's nothing to do with our "education system".The irony of dangerous extremist Nigel Farage - our very own shit-stirring 21st century Oswald Mosely - describing
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Are stocks expensive?Shocking news: I am a bearPeople came to challenge my "19th century view on market valuations"I will try with this thread to challenge my bias 1/Assumption: rates always
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Every day at 00:00 pacific time, a microservice running in a container on a cloud platform rolls over a counter. That counter triggers a notification to another microservice, which creates
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1. The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It’s one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last two hundred years. I wanted to explain
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Hey, who needs brief answers to complex questions for interfaith encounters between Jews and Christians? I know I do! Let's do this #thread /1#christianity #judaism #interfaith #jesus #Jews #messiah #christ
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