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Captain Obvious

OcaptMyObvious

I'm angry about yet another of these pompous assholes going all "I'm an expert, here's why those teachers, I'm sorry teachers unions, they are the convenient evil, are being hysterical

Nadim Shehadi

Confusezeus

Very useful background to the "negligence" that caused the tragedy in Lebanon by @glcarlstrom of @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/08/06/its-unbelievable-negligence-even-on-the-scale-of-the-perennially-negligen

Steve Sailer

Steve_Sailer

The dividing year in architecture is 1945. Before, Westerners tried, in many different styles, to make buildings look beautiful. After 1945, they felt like they didn't deserve beautiful buildings. Consider

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

I read Michael Gove’s big FDR speech so you don’t have to. TL;DR - I think FDR would sue. (Thread) The speech has Gove’s customary grandiloquence and rhetorical excess. The

Benjy Ritholtz

benjy43

Let’s watch some Quickley minutes!!!Outside of the starting debate, we should remember to be super excited to finally have, after many many years, a potentially fantastic starting PG. Let’s look

Louisette Lanteigne 🌎✌️⚖️♥️

lulex

Switzerland-based Glencore Plc mines nickel, copper, zinc and thermal coal in Canada and has partnerships worth billions of dollars with Canada's largest pension plans. They are also the investor of

seeshell

Tentoads4truth

Koch brothers and Saudi oil execs lobbied Trump to remove chemical plant safety rules https://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/koch-brothers-and-saudi-oil-execs-lobbied-trump-to-remove-chemical-plant-safety-rules/amp/ https://twitter.com/tentoads4

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Western-leftist critiques of capitalism, informed by anarchism/libertarianism, tend to focus on the mechanisms of exploitation. The best example is the simplistic anti-communist metaphor by Bakunin, rehashed by Chomsky, about "the

Modern Meaning

Modern_Meaning

Music theory thread:Never in my life have I seen a good explanation of how music works. The way music is currently taught is a Byzantine morass of disconnected concepts. But

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

It's kinda interesting how stories that turn into cult classic landmarks (as opposed to critical darlings), they tend to hew to the most classical of story structures like Campbell. Star

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

There are two lines of thought about 'concepts' in philosophy: one that sees them as shared ideals (either metaphysically (Plato/Frege) or socially (Hegel/Brandom)), and one that sees them as cognitive

saara paambu

itssadgurrll

Learn Tamil with me: a thread There are 12 vowel letters/uyirl ezhuthukkal (soul letters) அ/a ஆ/aa இ/e ஈ/ee உ/u ஊ/uu எ/ae ஏ/aee ஐ/ai ஒ/o ஓ/o: ஓள/ow There are 18 consonant

The Dangerous Ladies

dangerousladies

Hello everyone! Christine here. Before we get started I have some notes:-I am drafting this from my blocks I own. Most commercial pattern companies have something similar to these for

John Lee

koreanforeigner

These two arguments that were made about the $15 minimum wage are both spectacularly wrong. There are plenty of arguments that can be made against raising the minimum wage, and

City of Iowa City of Iowa City of Iowa

city_of_iowa

So I'll be listening in to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission meeting tonight. I sat in on the first and read the minutes for the second. At this point, things

Swiss Ramble

SwissRamble

Earlier this week I posted a thread on the 2018/19 financials for the Big Six Premier League clubs. Today I am going to look at the numbers for the Other

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