#Inheritance

I'm a Calvinist, & I've always been puzzled that so many Calvinists have so much trouble acknowleding systemic racism and sexism. If you believe in this bizarre-not-bizarre doctrine of original
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"reads a lot of wikipedia" is probably rightly a good proxy for "smart curious generalist" but being now having to actually learn a scientific discipline enough to follow current research
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1/ This article is everything wrong with @BBCNews and shows why much of its output is propaganda, not journalism. Awful. Going to use this thread to pick it apart piece
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Law reforms in the UAE : The Government has just announced a huge raft of legal reforms in the United Arab Emirates. The biggest takeaways (a thread):- Alcohol decriminalised- Suicide
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What truly matters is whether our government is controlled by #WeThePeopleGovernance is a privilege, WE choose those who represent US as civil servants, pledging an oath to uphold the Constitution.
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THE ETERNAL PROBLEM OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING1. I need to encapsulate state in this object.2. Good. Now the state is only accessible inside the object.3. *Doing something else* Wait how
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Let’s talk about home ownership for our/my/this blightened double recession generation shall we? I’d love to hear your takes. It’s been so fascinating seeing - as I approach 30 -
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Grant’s legacy toward Native Americans actually started out somewhat progressively for his era. He appointed Ely Parker (one of his most trusted adjutants in the war) as the first Native
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I'd like to start a thread with all the times women or POC #academics have felt erased when their work has come out in the media (news / online articles)
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I write about disinheriting daughters in parts of Igbo land, a culture that privileges men and Igbo fathers not writing their wills in toy column today: "In 1981, when Lazarus
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Luke 15:11 - 32 Yes - it is the story of the prodigal son.The one who took his inheritance, went out into the world spent it and fell on hard
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About 6 months ago, my neighbor asked me for the WI-Fi password. I gave it to him because it did not cost me anything and because I got along with
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Fascism. Authoritarianism. The question has always been, could it happen here? Because the answer has been NO does not mean that it will always be so. It is happening here.
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THREAD: "Heritage, Not Hate" is a fucking brilliant slogan. On the level of "Pro-Life" or "family values" brilliant.It frames the conversation around an opposition between the two terms, such that
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Most people who study early medieval history have probably encountered _Anglo-Saxon England_ by F. Stenton. Still a useful book. No question it's important, but have you ever read the end?
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The more I read about Jesus, the more I realise that he was neither a right wing or left wing religious or political leader. He was never an extremist but
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