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Capitalism was designed for one tax – a property tax.The average person thinks taxing high incomes makes more sense, and rich folks are happy you think that... because it doesn't.Quick
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11 Key Highlights from Manchester United’s 3-2 Win over SHU in the Premier League: the good, the bad and the ugly. 1. Error.A. Maguire here passes back to Dean. Why?
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The taxi hailing service/app, Uber, has been operating in South Africa since 2013. It's very convenient for riders, obviously. What never gets spoken about enough are the drivers, all 13000
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How to Properly Tag Content/Trigger Warnings on Twitter: A Thread First, I just want to say that all triggers are valid and deserve respect. Trauma, anxiety, and other mental
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2020 has been a year for sure....Here’s a little summary of what I’ve been up to for the year.About a year ago I was in Texas for @Ranching4Profit seminar (which
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Listen, I agree that early childhood education spending is vital, and would significantly help many groups that have traditionally been left behind. BUT-- Not canceling $50K of student loan debt
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People are truly ignoranthttps://twitter.com/andressabussm/status/1343219080845787136 Of course there are very few studies on this, which doesn’t help. The only one we hear about is the “CSI effect”, which turned forensic science
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Yesterday was an insane whirlwind of heavy lifting and driving until sunrise, but I do want to take a second to honor a place very important to The Penumbra:This is
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The most important part in organizing a hacker house is:Great people.However, attracting great people is a process and if done poorly it could hurt your experience.Let's bring transparency on how
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Today in #hillfortsWednesday we will tell a story about how hillforts turned into castles. In this thread we travel to Portomeiro (Val do Dubra, #Galicia), to embedded ourselves in a
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Low-wage work is great for getting somebody from 75% of poverty to 150% but a person who's never been above 150% FPL by age 35 is extreeeeeemly unlikely to climb
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1/'It must be carried out with absolute calm so as not to spark resistance or panic among the local populace.'A short thread on the mass deportations of Poles to Siberia,
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Meet the 10 richest royals in the world right now. [A Thread]1. Saudi Arabia's royal family: $1.4 trillion (£1.1trn)The wealthiest royal family in the worl is the House of Saud, which
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On Pakistan - Saudi Arabia Relations (A Thread)When states interact, there is always a two way traffic. Lets go through some ground facts before jumping to conclusions like many of
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late-ish night thoughts: sometimes I think about how I desegregated my elementary school and how that experience has shaped how I view privilege and whiteness. so I am product of
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Map Time!So you’ve seen a lot of maps in the last few days. What maps work, which ones don’t, and how to think about them? Time for a thread !
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