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Unsurprisingly, on bilibili, China's actual equivalent to Youtube, a search about Sino-Serbian relations returns mostly Serbian turbofolk music videos with a sizeable group of fans who subscribe to the physical
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Thread.1/ The government’s handling of Covid...Everyone I speak to thinks the same. The government (and Vallance & Whitty) have sorely misjudged the general mood. Why is this government unable to
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So I read the @capitalweather piece about naming heat waves and I was pretty blunt that this is once again a stupid idea. The point of naming tropical low-pressure systems
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We're standing by in the virtual courtroom for @CraigMurrayOrg's trial to begin. Our tweets will be on this thread. More info on the case can be found athttp://craigmurray.org.uk  Presiding are
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New article up: Making the vaccine was difficult - getting enough people to take it could be more difficult. Here are 5 (pretty bold!) ways we could drive uptake. Thread
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I need for my people to understand something about "nature". All of these discussions about evil aunt this are a complete and irrelevant waste of time. After listening to a
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If you are in the privileged position of imparting knowledge/teaching, you should always be a referee, a moderator. You must encourage all sorts of views/debates , taking special care that
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Yesterday I saw one of those "the Talmud is horrible" antisemitic propaganda images. I started to do a whole thread debunking every claim one by one, but then I decided
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Pixar Soul is a amazing movie. I would rank it like third, right behind Up and Coco but I would also rank it right behind up in level of importance
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Ok thanks for your patience folks!CTAs are forthcoming so keep reading. So, as you may be aware, my friday protest was at Rajan Sawhney’s office today, against the changes to
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ThreadLet's go back to the comedy gold from @staceyabrams (You're going to absolutely love this.) Now, Stacey is NOT trying to mislead.She's simply reading from the script that a staffer
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"I'm antifascist but I support Bernie, AOC and capitalism"Hmm. I think ya'll missed the part where being anti-fascist goes hand in hand with anti-capitalism, but don't pay attention to history.
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#EconTwitter hivemind: what are your favorite papers combining “causal” micro estimates (say from DiD or RCT) with a general-equilibrium macro model to answer an interesting macro question?This is for my
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1) Some Quebec hospitals outside Montreal may run out of beds to treat #COVID19 patients before Christmas, a government institute warned on Friday in its latest projections. In this thread,
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I just finished reading ‘Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science’ by @StuartJRitchie, an exploration of problems in scientific research. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/science-fictions-9781473564251 It s
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Black Swans Are Not Just Unlikely EventsA Short And Interesting Thread For Normies /0 Most people use the term "black swan" to mean something very unlikely, like a person being
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