#Preexisting

I want to think out loud a little bit about a concept that has been stuck in my head for the past few months:"Rationing by friction"the (sometimes unintentional, sometimes malicious)
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My sincere answer for why tankies reemerged five years ago is that movements are social hierarchies and newbie teens don't want to compete for status in existing illegible/inaccessible spaces like
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I’m going to start a thread of my concerns about school reopening here since I have more of a voice on TWITTER than in the SCHOOL SYSTEM as a TEACHER.
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We'll see how this prediction holds up with the signals the justices are set to send in just a few minuteshttps://twitter.com/MikeSacksEsq/status/1325584057493819395 Roberts probing whether individual plaintiffs have standing because ev
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I’m gonna explain why I’m a democrat now. I had voted for Reagan and for HW Bush. I may have even voted for W, after 9/11 as a sympathy thing.
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 259The vaccine news remains astoundingly positive. Reacting to my upbeat mood, a reporter asked me if there’s anything that keeps me up at night. Aside
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At least I'm not crazy, but I am also so sadhttps://discuss.python.org/t/disappointed-and-overwhelmed-by-discourse/982/78 Like.... Discourse has a fatal flaw that Hyperkitty was explicitly designed to avoid. Yet somehow it's getting
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December jobs report provides a clear picture of Trump’s failed handling of the economy1/nhttps://www.epi.org/press/december-jobs-report-provides-a-clear-picture-of-trumps-failed-handling-of-the-economy/ Today, the Bureau of Labor Statist
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On Friday, I promised a thread in commemoration of today being the 103rd anniversary of the Halifax Explosion.https://twitter.com/jacremes/status/1334922889850740736 If you're Canadian, you almost certainly know of the Halifax Explosion
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 317Today was medical grand rounds: brief summary below but worth watching for latest on vaccine distribution in SF, current state of the pandemic, & the
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I wrote this piece at the peak of the pandemic. It's paywalled, so here's a thread about it https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00810 Also, you can listen to a recording for free here: https://www.healthaffai
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Urgent: NW Oregon is facing significant wildfire threats. This is an extremely dangerous situation, and dry, warm temperatures are escalating conditions. Here are some helpful resources so you can stay
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THE MUSEUM THREAD: The pandemic has utterly decimated the Arts & Culture sector as a whole, which accounts for $877 Billion (4.5%) of our nation’s GDP and 5.1 Million workers,
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Given yesterday's events, I want to talk about how woefully inadequate media literacy is for thinking about...violent fascism and the spread of a pandemic, + how focusing on this elides
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 87Local update: @UCSFHospitals, remains up @ 17 (double last wk), 3 vented (Fig). I still can’t explain it – no bump in posive test %
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As I said I would in the last thread, in this thread I'll highlight the most absurd mistranslations in @SentaiFilmworks' Oregairu S3/My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax by the infamously
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