#Basic

On meandering. Or how to be a low conscientiousness / high openness person and keep your dignity (thread). The meta approach: limit the downside of having to act against your
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As 2019 comes to an end here’s a thread of the major LIES from ZANUPF Government in 2019. A must read1. Inflation to drop by December - @MthuliNcube [via @HeraldZimbabwe
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Day 1 of eating Publix subs every day for @PubSubs_on_sale. Im starting with my favorite, the chicken tender sub with buffalo sauce. 10/10 I could literally eat this every single
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Quarantine cabin trip with my sis has been 50% eating & 50% sleeping... honestly same thing i normally do but in a more cozy setting Meal thread: kimbap Tomato soup
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My SO is a cowboy and pretty conservative. His way of thinking has changed A LOT since we met and he has gotten me to see some things differently too.
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The weird thing is that since the lockdown started the Govt has done broadly the right things - good economic package; put in place testing capacity; building tracing capacity; maintaining
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Needd to rant longform about this, but: right now, all macroeconomics is broken. Any system, from full communism to Mad Max ancap nonsense, relies at its core on keeping as
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I am going to be 100% clear with everyone right now.Disagreeing on politics is disagreeing on things like whether or not property taxes should be raised to pay for additional
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It is my sixth @nytimes anniversary today. I read "The Night of the Gun" just before I started here and I think about this passage from David Carr (whom I
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Oh FFS I spent much of the past two months engrossed in Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem trilogy and emerge only to find an eminent Harvard historian mangling one of its
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1. At the risk of being reductive, my disagreement here is that I think base is more important than superstructure, that material realities (including the social relations they create) are
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My 69 year old mother has been using computers for about 30 years now. She asks for my help on something now about once a month. She took the time
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So... JUSTICE LEAGUE. You guys GET that Whedon isn’t the enemy, right? That he didn’t ACTIVELY try to get Snyder fired? That WB exploited Zack’s family situation to shift the
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As someone who is actually educated, a female and feminist. Let me go through a little and very generally what terrible writing of a female characters really is. A thread.
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Medical specialties as cereals, a thread. Family Medicine - Cheerios. It’s good for the heart, lowers cholesterol, and the scope of cheerio flavors is broad from apple cinnamon, honey nut,
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Next time someone asks you to put on your mask because the science says so, tell them first grade science taught us the fundamental rule of life: we breath O2
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