#Society

Two very contrasting approaches in Ontario vs. BC - one limiting hours in bars/shutting down clubs and banquet halls. Ontario status quo with continuing society as is. On surface may
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The revisionist history of how tech companies talk about themselves shouldn't be amplified by people without critique.Airbnb is both a hospitality company and a housing shortage accelerant. It incentivises multiple
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TW: MiscarriageGuess it's time for this. Gather around, folx. Let's talk about how turning miscarriage into a taboo topic is so toxic. Let's start w/ some statistics. Approx 10-20% of
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This story. Have to say the @WSJ has done a good job on covering the reality of life in America, especially on issues such as household debt. This one is
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Imperial apologists disavow the violence of the British Empire in two main ways: 1. They dismiss wars of conquest as ‘Queen Victoria’s small wars’. There were relatively few casualties compared
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I participated in a webinar organised by the CFA Institute and CFA Society Portugal. My panel was about "Ensuring financial stability in Covid-19 times: what is the role of regulators
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Stuart Hall, in his account of ‘authoritarian populism’, argued that marketization hollows out civil society by removing services from local participation & determination. This, then, leaves a democratic vacuum that
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as the 70th anniversary of the korean war approaches, i want to dispel some common myths about it, namely:-the north started it-the US "liberated" the south from "tyranny"-the war is
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Lambda Legal has mounted an aggressive and painstaking four-year effort to monitor, track, document, and analyze the extent to which Trump’s judges would impact the lives of LGBTQ+ people and
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Cold-take analysis: What happened in Washington yesterday should not come as a surprise to anyone. What’s surprising is the rhetoric espoused by the outgoing president didn’t incite a deadly riot
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A reminder that the term "Libertarian," was originally used solely by the anarchist movement, in an attempt to get around censorship of anarchist publications in places like France. Only in
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I see people calling random Jews on social media (tiktok especially) colonizers, I’m terrified at the prospect that this will turn into the real-life targeting of Jews in some future
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How To be Happy (Real Talk) The world is in chaos and more people are becoming depressed, anxious and miserableToday, I'm going to show you the best practices to implement
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Thread on homophobic slurs: 1/I feel like it's necessary for straight men to step up on this fight now. I know it's happening already, but we also know certain words
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Thread/In addition to these so far unsuccessful hacking attempts, the article reminds us that “the FBI stepped in to warn Facebook that Russia’s troll farm was parading as a nonprofit
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Dear legislators:* a wallet is a collection of private keys* private keys are just informationDo you realize what outlawing information would entail? Information can be represented in all kinds of
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