#Debate

This letter beautifully & eloquently reflects our position. There was no debate. Because there was no awareness or understanding. All cloaked in fuzziness. Enough. Time for a grown-up conversation in
Read more
"Patients being told their symptoms are in their mind is completely unacceptable to every doctor I know, and such attitudes have no place in modern medicine." Guess you haven't met
Read more
Central bank market neutrality is a myth!CBs take non-neutral decisions all the time. They cannot avoid their scrutiny and discussion, especially where there is market failure like, e.g., for climate
Read more
2day 24 May, 2013 Adam Goodes called out a girl for a racial slur made against Sydney's 47-point Indigenous Round win over Collingwood.The final 3yrs of his playing career he
Read more
Constructing a genuinely neutral set of questions is a challenge for surveys on this topic but using the starting point that these *are* ‘rights’, which you either oppose or support
Read more
It is ONE THING to joke about the Blight parents being hot or attractive (or even seriously thinking they are) but it is entirely something else to defend their actions
Read more
The Great Firewall was one of China's most forward looking policies and resulted in the development of an entire ecosystem of domestic internet companies found basically nowhere else. The idea
Read more
Tech Twitter is hyped about GPT-3 today! Let me add a counter-perspective. Here's my contrarian take on GPT-3 – it has little semantic understanding, it is nowhere close to AGI,
Read more
Nobody wants to say it, but I will: if you got put on in a major way in the last wave of Black ppl dying, you cannot separate how that
Read more
I have not yet had coffee but here's a longish thread on postal banking in Canada, thrift, and account-based policy. #cdnecon #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/chambart/status/1265252673974132736 As the article notes, we had postal
Read more
I’ve been warning people for more than a year not to trust CV Vitolo-Haddad because so much of how they presented themselves was hypocritical and deeply conflicting, but I’m just
Read more
President @realDonaldTrump on refusing to hide in the basement from the coronavirus:"We can't lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does. He has the ability to lock himself up.
Read more
Two interesting bits here. Merkel telling Macron that she is fed up. https://twitter.com/StevenErlanger/status/1198164037621682178 And: "There are also concerns among allies that Mr. Macron is considering a speech about creating a
Read more
It's beyond an iota of doubt that Modi Administration has failed the nation. In a manner most ghastly and cruel. As a people living in a democracy - what are
Read more
I entirely agree with Carl's take in this thread.If the US prioritized properly - closing other transmission sources, investing in classroom adaptation, testing, data - we could find ways to
Read more
I know Rin has decided to move on after receiving Mackenzie's unseasoned apology. But I still want to talk about POC being disrespected in the publishing/reading world for a bit.
Read more