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Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

I wish the people arguing covid policy from all the mistakes made by public health folks in the spring (and there were many!) would spend less time on recriminations and

impeachSpanky

Godlesswh_re

A threadTW:Ableism Ableism is so normalized in society that people don't realize that they're using it everyday. I'm going to list some examples below. Calling someone a narcissist or diagnosing

Nate Tinner-Williams

natemup

For awhile, I was tempted to think that recent events have caused a "mask off" moment in the Church... And perhaps that's true, to an extent. Especially on social media.For

balajis.com

balajis

Thesis: in twenty years, you won’t know what most people look like other than people you’ve met in person.Everyone goes to avatars and pseudonyms to protect privacy. Already happening, especially

Miss Aja

brat2381

Lord have mercy...folks are already telling Dems in the South and Midwest what they need to be doing or how they should be running more progressive candidates because GA went

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

It's probably worth noting that there have been no significant attempts at vigilante justice against murderer-cops, nor is such a thing even really imaginable. By contrast, for a century or

Amy's ready to play the music and light the lights

spooloflies

LRT I think it's important to clarify: it's not that zoomers and kpop stans didn't do anything. It's that what they accomplished is different from how the media is talking

NMH

nosmhnmh

For all the absolute PANIC about new cases in FL, TX, AZ etc., did people REALLY think that these states wouldn’t eventually get hit? My only question is what took

Fiorella Isabel

Fiorella_im

“I don’t want socialism bc I don’t want big government in control”. Socialism is NOT the government in control, but the people. It’s workers owning the means of production. Capitalism

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asideoftrashpl1

Ngl I feel like fandoms as a whole miss out so much on worldbuilding in soulmate AUs. I don’t believe something as socially significant as soulmarks can be introduced into

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NanaBeingNana

I'm gonna be honest. When it's about big cities like Shanghai, they have become a lot more open-minded than the previous generation, especially the younger generation. However, China isn't only

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JibrilDazhi

Prostitutes, Wine & Sultan MuradSultan Murad, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire would often anonymously go into the midst of the people and see their state. One evening, he felt

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loveisafetish

When something shitty happens to someone on social media, telling them "well that's just what happens "on the internet"" isn't kind or helpful. First of all, "on the internet" isn't

Voidra WEAR YOUR ****ING MASK

voidrantsback

If you cater to the toxicity of your audience, and alienate anything empathetic or wholesome, you really shouldn't be surprised when the toxicity is all you are greeted with. My

Russel Norman

RusselNorman

So I got curious about who had access to water from the Waikato River and I discovered that Wairakei Pastoral Ltd (dairy agribusiness) has access to more water than all

James Goldberg, Now on Patreon

JamesGoldberg

So...in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Latter-day Saints would often pay an elderly person to go do temple work for their ancestors. The temple endowment took a long time,

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