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1/ McKee: You’ve said that anesthesia and amnesia are the two primary “sins” of modern society.Weller: We go numb to try to cope with the fact that we have not
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Screencap this thread, it may not be up for longMy fellow patriotsIt has been too longToday we find ourselves in the darkness before the dawn Today I am not here
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This sort of thing is pretty annoying. HS2 Ltd and it’s forestry contractors can’t win. If they protect their trees with tubes to stop voles, shrews, hares and deer, eating
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The Goldenberg scandal was a perfect illustration of how state capture works.It was proof that mega-scandals could only work if they had sponsorship from the highest levels of government.And it
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1/24 A thread on yesterday’s decision in Bostock. The takeaways: (1) The majority's textualist reasoning was correct and a major win for LGBTQ employees; (2) While important issues for trans
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BREAKING—We are out of vaccine reserves! Trump HHS Sec Azar announced this week that the govt would begin releasing #COVID19 vaccine doses held in reserve for 2nd shots—but no such
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Today is my first meeting as Chair of the City Council's Zoning Committee. More than any other tool we have, zoning drives housing affordability, inclusion, and city-making. Some history... 99 years
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Deep Dive on Prez Elections:So why do I think Trump has very good chances to win this election? After all, he is behind in the polling average in every single
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Peter Lynch is a great investment manager of all time. He is famous for introduction of PEG. (P/E growth)According to Mr. Lynch the faster the company grows, the higher the
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Walking in the woods near London last weekend, I discovered two more homeless camps hidden within the trees. That night, temperatures dropped to -6°C, today there's 3 inches of snow
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THREAD: Last night I had the unpleasant sight of witnessing one of the key obstacles to progress in Bosnia. Unfortunatley that obstacle is the cohort of fanatical SDA supporters who
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alarmism vs denial in Switzerland...orsome observations on the Swiss COVID responsea monster thread... Quick preamble on "why": I have been monitoring the Swiss response for 2 reasons: 1. The Swiss
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Got a lot of DMs today about the new Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html and NYT stories on school reopenings, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/w
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What were the most distinct things about the "#Trumpers" that actually entered the Capitol building?1) Many were carrying cinematic-looking, walking sticks as weapons.2) The group most commonly photographed were wearing
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/293865 https://ussanews.com/News1/2020/12/30/watch-live-first-vaccine-death-reported-as-millions-of-doses-are-distributed-in-america/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sw
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Happy black history month. Here's a thread on what AAVE is, including the history of it and how it's been appropriated in the modern day. African-American Vernacular English, or AAVE
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