#Social

Gatekeeping, especially for consumer mediums, occupations and consumer identities, is interesting. Gatekeeping, in of itself, to me, is not “good” or “bad”. Gatekeeping is a matter of ability and power
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Some key concepts from René Girard's Theory of Mimetic Desires, in pictures: Mimetic desire is wanting "according to the desire of another"—we want what other people want *because* they want
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I don't think yall understand how important it is to guard your heart, especially during a time like this when so much chaos, negativity, trauma and uncertainty is coming at
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The scotophobin (literally “dark-fear-protein”) is one of my favorite in old scientific literature! There were a bunch of high profile papers from at least 3 labs over a 15 year
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Thomas Sankara pictures >> a thread with quotes
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.@VancouverPD confirm they are "aware" of #DrumCircle planned at #WreckBeach tonight and beach patrol officers will "respond accordingly to calls that arise". This, after self-described "event" promoter posts i
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MMT is a lie. #Bitcoin is the truth.An honest thread about a dishonest thread from @StephanieKelton https://twitter.com/StephanieKelton/status/1321180774675238912?s=20 A deficit occurs when any organization—a family, a company, or a gove
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FTC vs Facebook – a few thoughts:1) This, plus Visa/Plaid, shows the FTC is treating nascent competition really seriously. The cost of that is making it harder for startups to
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Some people are very disgusted with the politicization of sports and seeing millionaires and corporations using a captive audience to further a dishonest agenda that omits key facts. So I
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I’ve rarely felt as absolutely disgusted as I am right now by so many people on the so-called left. The last few weeks between the white supremacist apologia and now
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Results of elections over the last five years signal to Progressives that we cannot simply continue thinking in traditional ways, proposing the usual, conventional solutions & hoping the pendulum could
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THREAD: Here's some advice about how to manage your personal finances if your employer (probably the federal government) is doing the payroll tax deferral. 1/ First, let's distinguish the taxes
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One of the major problems with society is that we all now believe in narratives (A thread) It doesn’t matter who we vote for, what our beliefs are, what we
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I’d been a bit uneasy for a few years probably. I was always a trans activist but it was before “trans women are literal actual women” stated to take hold.https://twitter.com/labelfreebrands/status/1349102837817507841
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This preprint provides an important critical evaluation of metascientific approaches to replications and how the underlying motives differ from other approaches to across multiple fields. Should be a key reading
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So it seems 20–40% of people don’t want to get vaccinated.. They should have hired a marketer. How to 100% of people vaccinated? A thread: 2) I would have rolled
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