#Cities

Dunning-Kruger asymmetry. The less confident, more doubtful must always work to understand the ones more sure of themselves. Just like people living in cities often pay extra taxes.https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/132557873222093209
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BREAKING: Israel is committing crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution on Palestinians, says a landmark report.@HRW says Israel's "systematic oppression" of Palestinians includes: segregation denying equal rights
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NEW: It took four years but I just got some newly declassified CIA reports studying the Soviet Union's use of "black magic", telepathic mind control and "psychotronic generators" – devices
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I think this is wrong. People don’t turn into monsters if you put them in a uniform. The Stanford Prison Experiment has been thoroughly debunked. See this recent paper, by
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1/ It was brought to my attention by @gouchoogrande an Iberian deity which would be called Bokon, equated with Dionysus.Never having heard about a deity like Dionysus in Iberia (as
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Why Every Human Must Be A Vegetarian Every सनातनी/मनुष्य must be a vegetarian because it is our real nature to be a vegetarian, and to go against our real nature
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I spent last week talking to those on the front lines of the battle against #COVID19, and I tried to capture a slice of each of their lives here: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/493787-coronavirus-stories-from-the-frontline-one-week-in-americas
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"Effective firefighting force" and HRFE response protocols: a thread. Bear with me, this might be a bit of a long one. But I'm going to try to get the facts
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Today I'm thinking of all the Black & brown grassroots organizers who GOTV to defeat DT--in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in MN/WI/GA, & so many other crucial areas. You gave to
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1/ I was thinking about the music that I listened to when I was growing up. In my formative 12-18 years I was painfully shy. Music was my escape from
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I've written before a little about the anti-Asian sentiment that pervades a lot of cyberpunk media, but lately I've been digging into old sci-fi/sci-fantasy serials for No Particular Reason and
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Next month, @timdugganbooks will publish my big climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth, in which I try to take a very broad, and very long, view of the state of the
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Ok I couldn’t resist - did anyone else phone in for Cornyn’s telethon townhall? Misery does love company. https://twitter.com/pumbarger/status/1298256232742969345 If you phone in press *3 if you want to ask
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(thread) I'm appalled at the fact that people still endorse these these riots. Riots that have destroyed many people's livelihoods, made many people lose their jobs, and there was nothing
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Why of course, @MrMikeBlake :) : What it really boils down to is @the_pcleague views athletes as full-fledged citizens that deserve ALL of their economic & legal rights.Meanwhile, the NCAA
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Poland's Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that abortions due to birth defects - which make up 98% of all legal terminations in Poland - are unconstitutional.The decision has prompted protests by
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