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HI EXCUSE ME, I just found out the the prof for this online course Iā€™m taking *died in 2019* and heā€™s technically still giving classes since heā€™s *literally my prof
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many "why don't billionaires give away more money?" takes, and this bit about Bezos' ex-wife prompts me to consider another reason why not:most people have no idea what to DO
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Still no sign of hotel quarantine regulations. If tomorrow, no prospect of a parliamentary vote on them until *after* they are brought into force. This is a law which will
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1) Regardless of the outcome of the US elections, we need to have a hard deep think about what democracy means. We have developed a form of democracy, which allows
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I think this is broadly right - maybe ā€œdisasterā€ is a bit stronger than Iā€™d want & probably ā€œmight well be necessaryā€. To argue as if there are no downsides
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what's your favorite song which you think no one else knows about this is the most obscure one i know. it was recorded by four teenagers in kentucky and i
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Constantly challenge your own concepts."What is ________ after all?"I struggled for DECADES with the concept of 'work'. Work was supposed to be hard and unfulfilling, preferably inside a grey cubicle
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Thread on Japanese computer industry:It's surreal watching this. In the 80 and very early 90s, Japan was the 2nd largest PC market. The term "IBM compatible PC" didn't exist (well
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Just found out about @ChrisDStedman & his new book IRL via a moving @HuffPost story about his dog Tuna. As someone who doesn't use FB, IG, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or even
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Look #TheGameAwards , but The Last of Us 2 absolutely *doesn't* deserve a "best direction" award for many reasons.1: Naughty Dog hospitalises their workers. TLoU2 was made from crunch.2: Giving
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Political violence is always wrong and should never be tolerated from anyone. Once "protesters" threaten lives and property, their grievances and ideology should become absolutely irrelevant to the situation.That is,
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one of the things that annoys me the most about the colonial nuclear family + patriarchal romanticism ideations, beyond its unabashed violence on oppressed people, is how it obfuscates, deprioritizes,
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Iā€™m at the theatre tonight. Iā€™m seeing the press night of A Christmas Carol. (Break a leg, friends). Iā€™m going to talk about my #CovidSafeTheatre experience. I booked online, and
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I was bullied at work: a threadI was bullied by my boss when I was 22. He regularly shouted at me in front of the whole open-plan department, called me
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I have a suggestion.If you are close with anyone who still actively supports Trump, anyone who openly agrees with (or was one of) the domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol
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MAGA has destroyed the GOP.https://twitter.com/chadpergram/status/1295899315156791296 I donā€™t want to understate this. Trump was the catalyst, but we the people toppled one of the two reigning political parties within a few
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