#REAL

Unpopular opinion: no one involved with the ST knew what to do with Finn. JJ used him as a red herring in TFA. Rian tried to give him a purpose
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I'm ambivalent about the capitol putsch today. On one hand, it was very satisfying, entertaining. Some kind of catharsis to those directly sticking it to the man. I think to
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Right. Deep Breath. RT-PCR "false positives" and Ct numbers (again). tl;dr it is complex, but the RT-PCR testing systems deployed across the world are sound and the people who run
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Do you know the history of "Tees Hazari" in Delhi??Liberals say it was named Tees Hazari because the great King jahangir's daughter was fond of flowers and she planted there
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1/ GETTING UNBANKED IS REAL, CRYPTO FIXES THIS: my own story.I've told this story a couple times, but since @rohangrey insists on pushing a bill that might be v. damaging
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The US-Russian strategic stability talks that started in Vienna today will be somewhat of a make-or-brake moment for bilateral arms control at least in the medium term. Short thread 1/8
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Long interesting thread fr @GoodLionFilms re Nashville bombing 12-25-20 - lots of possibly related info & sub tweets - no idea what's real/true but DEF worth a read - some
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Time for some honesty. For five years now the President has said things and done things that I felt we should not tolerate in a leader of the nation. I
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This is a characteristically thoughtful column and I have some thoughts. Read it first and I'll post my own below it.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/business/media/capitol-anthime-gionet-buzzfeed-vine.html I've always thought in
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It seems pretty unambiguous to me that we're in the middle of a coup attempt. It also seems pretty unlikely to work. It's a bad situation in any case, and
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I wrote this piece on the eve of the 2016 election. Trump had a real chance of winning based on the polls. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/ Where we are right now is just
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#BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $7.81 trillion AUM, recently granted two of its funds the ability to invest in #Bitcoin futures. Here's why I think BlackRock investing
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My 15 year #GC service recognition arrived in the mail in December. I have presented lots of long service awards, but this is the first I received. It caused me
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I haven’t run many revolutions in my time so I’m not sure what you need to pull them off. Control of the TV station & defence ministry seems a bit
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I really like @mattyglesias (I’m a paid subscriber) and he’s done a lot to popularize the YIMBY approach, but I don’t think he fully understands what a developer is or
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How different would the discourse around our undocumented population be if every American had even a superficial understanding of the immiseration & death their country had brought to Central America
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