#CULTURE

A thread: Trends #0026 — Drop Culture 1. ProblemWe are status seeking monkeys, as Eugene Wei says. 2. SolutionBrands manufacture scarcity (and status) to drive sales.Constricting supply amplifies
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part 2.lovemail as far as i know was also originally a way to show love to your favourite idols ! but now its primarily just another weeaboo schtick to send
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Defending myself : a thread. Autumn. (1/?)Recently me and my online friend Autumn have gotten into a fight, i’m not one for cancel culture but this needs to be spoken
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South Delhi's famous Shri Aadya Katyayani Shakti Peetham, more popularly known as Chhatarpur Mandir, off the Mehrauli-Gurgaon road, is, for me, an absolute must each time I'm in the Indian
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Really never expected to type this out, but here goes. On Monday, after more than three years here at @ringer, I submitted my two weeks. I’ve loved being a part
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Fellow @uottawa @apuoott @aptpuo profs: I stand with @uottawa students and colleagues who condemn professorial use of racially derogatory terms as acceptable in academic discourse. Inclusion of thought is defined
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One of the very timely reminders from reading #Sapiens was that culture, tradition, identify, religion, and ideology have always changed and evolved. Many beliefs we hold strongly were simply manufactured
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While I was still scrambling to give my undergrads at-home tasks for the first weeks of lockdown, I knew they needed a break, so I gave them just one assignment:Write
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White and non-black POC friends: allyship is actually pretty easy. Here are some easy steps for you to take. 1. Listen. That’s it. It’s how you learn. As a former
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Secular Democratic socialist state established by Lehru ji & INC has completely failed the Indian people. While Nationlist One party pseudo Communist (capitalist) State established by Mao & CCP has
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One interesting mega trend happening out there today is a stress test of the whole concept of the "nation state".The nation state is not a self-evident thing that is a
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moral and legal pressure now building in PA where state Attorney's General has opened up a criminal investigation into #NursingHomeDeaths https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/05/12/pennsylvania-attorney-general-nursing-home-coronavirus-investigat
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I want to speak to my experiences as a judge on panels for literary prizes, whether for individual poems, or for book prizes. I will not divulge any identifying information
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[thread] Can we please talk about this growing anti trend of actively targeting their own mutuals when they find out their moot ships something they don't like? And the implications
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His caption said “your energy is your biggest currency.” I feel like this is about Teddy When Swizz first posted the postponed message and said it was about quality,
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So, Ready Player Two is coming out soon. I literally saw Ready Player One like last week and watched it two more times since then. Not because I love it,
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