#Basic

1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional. 2/20. Democracy is undone from within rather than from without. 3/20. The occasion to undo democracy is often an election. 4/20. The mechanism to
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This is my small contribution to Pandemic-era furniture design. Today is my beloved wife's birthday. A special birthday. She's a psychotherapist with a general practice, but specializing in grief. Like
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We just drove three hours my 8-year-old brother for a getaway and the house we arrived at ended up having seemingly satanic items and stuff for witchcraft rituals.We had to
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Why the cancellation of A-Levels and GCSE’s will create an education gap in this generation (Thread 1/10) #alevels2021 #gcse2021 #nationallockdown
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Chapter 1 of the Economic Survey 2020-21 (https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/economicsurvey/ ): a glowing report on the govt's handling of the COVID crisis, and a case study in what happens when science is abandoned
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How to Smash Prime Brazilianas as a Foreigner in Brazil Rt and like this right nowA Thread and Free Playbook Alright going to start this off directly by saying you
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Joint Personnel Recovery instructors from our Military Trg and #SERE Sch recently assisted the Military College with an Ex in the Slieve Blooms to practice drills for Combat Recovery forces
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This will be a continuing thread on the pitfalls of rationalism. First a basic definition :- Rationalism is the reliance on *reason* as the basis of morality or action. **1**
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Did some basic benchmarking on the new Apple Macbook Pro with the M1 processor. There has been a lot of reviewer buzz about benchmark performance.To understand how it compares to
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"The climate has always changed" (or similar phrase) does not imply what many seem to think it implies. Let me explain.https://twitter.com/DavidTCDavies/status/1118251767626719232 Since the 1830s scientists have known that the Ear
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Harry Haywood's 'Black Bolshevik.'Coming back from World War I to the battlefield of the Chicago race riot.pg 3 It was a turning point in Harry's life. Harry describes the age
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OK Guys. Serious talk time. Where you live and the things you see popular where you are may not work in places you don't live. One of the reasons super
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Listened in on a 'sales webinar' yesterday. Obvious salespitch.Cringeworthy.But let me break it down for you in a thread. Guy opens with talking about how many salespeople struggle to meet
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Some factoids that would interest @sankrant - Calcutta Medical College began with 20 students being taught Western medicine in Bengali medium. Madhusudan Gupta, a Sanskrit student from a family of
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Anyone who has ever worked a corporate job will tell you where you studied means very little.Education doesn't guarantee ability. If anything, the person who hustled a part time job
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This might be basic, but thought I'd share today's epiphany after talking through the Martin Sostre project with my editor, in case it's helpful to anyone else grappling with liberalism
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