#Balance

Liechtenstein has a general election today, which means they'll elect the 25 members of their Landtag, record high number of 75 candidates, 23 women and 52 men. Let's look at
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#Prop22 was the most expensive ballot initiative in history: "gig economy" companies firehosed $200m over voters, outspending 48/50 state legislative races on a single question.That question: can employers misclassify workers
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Dear Media,What’s happening with RobinHood? A quick primer.This is a “plumbing” issue. It is esoteric, even for those on Wall Street.A very long thread on how the toilet is clogged.Read
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It is grad school interview season,which means it is the last piece of a VERY stressful application process for many. While it is important to impress interviewers, it is crucial
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Middle East Watchers: The Trump Administration will likely designate the Houthis in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization in the coming weeks. Their goal is to weaken the Houthis, weaken
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Thread:With US having vaccinated 9M+ and India starting it's vaccination plan soon (Jan 16th) some have started scaremongering about vaccines via alarmist WhatsApp forwards, FB/Twitter posts and other social media
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1/ I wanted to put together a thread about a unique Covid value opportunity that I've been thinking through and trying to take advantage of this year- Investing for future
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THREAD: ‘Titans’ doesn’t even begin to describe what @bschoenburg and @DougFinkeSJR have meant to Springfield, the state of Illinois and countless colleagues in the statehouse and at @SJRbreaking, including myself.
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The Varieties of Twitter Academics1/? The Trendchaser.Something big just happened in the world? They’ve already got a preprint about how their underspecified pet theory about Last Year’s Thing is *also*
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After the longest-ever Premier League season, the three clubs that ended up being relegated to the Championship turned out to be Bournemouth, Norwich City and Watford, but what will the
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Today I'm talking about my experience doing a #PhD in a second language (pros, cons, and tips). I open a thread:#phdlife #L2 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #bilingual I'm a Chilean, Latina psycholinguist,
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You know, when you realize the overall meta of society, it really makes watching what unfolds over the years THAT MUCH MORE INTERESTING.The powers that be want control and more
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1/In 2020, peak demand for oil has become a hot topic. Estimates range from a peak in 2040s to the peak having already passed. But the Trillion $$ Energy Transition
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No, they're wrong about it all. Angsty "We could fight the government!" fuckscones like to make that comparison because if "backwards Afghans can do it..." which underpins their argument, that
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THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976). So many reasons why this is my favorite movie. One reason: we never see Buttermaker at home or see him looking at old pictures from
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I've been seeing a lot of tweets blaming Texas blackouts on wind power. Minnesota's wind turbines operate down to about -20. We've had to turn them off before when it
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