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The main reason centrally planned economies tend to fail is that they reward failure.When countries like the USSR weren't satisfied with how a state enterprise was performing, they'd throw more
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1. Starting Friday at 5 pm, face coverings are required in the state of North Carolina. Here is a thread with some highlights of the Executive Order. Please note that
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Since I'm 9 tweets from 2200, here's a non-exhaustive thread of continuity errors in #Sanditon Please add yours.#SaveSanditon #Sanditon continuity oopsies #SaveSanditon Ep.2 - Not even a bruised knuckle? #Sanditon
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1. I've been thinking/talking lots about /community building/2. I've been meaning to write these in a blog/book but it seems like it's gonna take a while, so instead—3. Here's the
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I agree with @WalshFreedom.What looks like a "Civil War" is moderates, conservatives, and proponents of rule of law leaving or being pushed out.The Republican Party is shrinking and hardening into
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Want to know how mathematicians, philosophers, and Nobel prize-winning physicists agree on mastering writing through an unexpected approach?Hint: It's simple. THREAD! 1/The titles within my stack of books have been
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The debate over coronavirus transmission is becoming a full-on culture war when we don't have the full evidence base to know for sure exactly how it spreads. Does it spread
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[1/5] There are a few things that I particularly treasure on the project. One is my camera, not necessarily for what it is but for what it has done. I
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I recently lost a very close relative to COVID. A tragedy, of course. But what happened after could have been worse. Here’s a small thread for those of you with
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Short thread: as a "serious" writer who leans right, I'm often asked what I think of Donald Trump's whole catalog of boastful, braggadocious statements ("I say election fraud here was
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You may have noticed a thing that interests me is how much movies and TV shows feel like they're taking place "in the real world". One measure of this is
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So why can't we just "move on" after Jan 6 as many republican lawmakers are suggesting we do?There are many reasons - both logical and theological. 1/ Desmond Tutu talks
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1/ Given the current market environment, I find it useful to revisit Baupost's 2014 letter. To be clear, I'm not calling a market top. Market timing is not my game
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Parking minimums, a thread.Why? Because this is something many continue to approach from the perspective of "well I drive and so everywhere I go needs to have parking."Warning: This was
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The attacks by the Erdoğan regime against Turkey's LGBTQ+ community are instensifying:the newly Erdoğan-appointed rector of the Boğaziçi University, Melih Bulu,closed the university's LGBTQ+ students' club. #LGBTİHaklarıİ
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Today on Facebook: a number of posts about flights coming into Melbourne airport from Guangzhou despite the airport being closed to international passenger arrivals. The mobile screenshot of the incoming
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