#MODERN

And they said so 1. “A day will come when Congressites will wear a 'janeu' (a sacred thread Brahmins wear) over their coats.” -- Savarkar, 1959. 2. “One day the
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Grammatical gender, a thread. This has been going on a while, so I thought it worth articulating what I think and why. I respond to some of the earlier discussions,
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1/ Lebanon is NOT an artifact of French colonialism. Its current borders reflect the Maronite desire to build an economically viable state with seaports and agricultural land after the great
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And those glowy patches? Those are its retinas/eyes. This creature lives at such depths that conventional image forming eyes aren't so useful.The middle ridge allows some direction determination (shadows) &
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It's very "heh, actually" to say this, but it's one of the things modern fantasy gets wrong the most. Our perception of what's a light weapon to use and what
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So I only found out that it was #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek today! I thought I would do a thread of going through the education system as a dyslexic. (Similar to my autism
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A few months after I joined Facebook in 2006, we shipped the 2 most important products in FB’s history: News Feed + Open Registration. A lot of smart people thought
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They're also adoptive siblings! Hooray incest I guess, right? No inherent power imbalances between mommy Shadoweaver's favorite and least favorite kids, amirite? I wish I could stop seeing this stuff
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This isn't the first time an anti-science leader rallied his supporter to attack and discredit a doctor in the face of an epidemic in order to preserve the economy.In 1900,
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[QUICK THREAD: PUNCTUATION]1/24At first, there was nothing. Not even space. That's because ancient scripts like Chinese and Sumerian were all logographic, i.e. a single glyph or "letter" represented an entire
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1/ I've been investing for 22 years, and I've never seen irrational exuberance and false hope around equities like we're experiencing right now. Over the past few weeks, many people
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Lukashenka’s regime is collapsing. The history is being made right now. The longest dictatorship in Europe’s modern history is coming to its end. Proud to witness that. The National March
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Finally starting to listen to the Fated Mates episode on Fifty Shades of Grey and the thing that continues to be so tiresome is that mainstream outlets covering romance novels,
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Cathie @CathieDWood, Not a chance was US stock market cap/GDP greater in the late 1800s and early 1900s than it is today. It was a FRACTION of today's level. It
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A hypothesis I've been mulling over for some time in thread form;The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Reichs - all of them... Archduke, Kaiser and Fuhrer - has
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To understand the events of the past two and a half years a person has to understand that many highly placed government officials were already neck deep in treason. Their
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