#Decline

liberated donkey from shrek 2

choosy_mom

R.I.M. Dunbar : You've probably heard of Dunbar's number before—he's the evolutionary psychologist who hypothesized that ~150 people is the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any

Heinz Brandenburg

HzBrandenburg

Crisis handling is not judged by outcomes.If we take ONS/NRS/NISRA figures, COVID death/1M population:England: 68Scotland: 65Which is of course also right, because government decisions are not the only variables determining

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Today I got some listener mail from my appearance on @IssuesEtc to discuss my article about the "crisis of men" in the church. The mail specifically asked me to engage

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

ARGUMENTThe supposed continuity of the British establishment has actually been a disastrous run of utter failure since over a century......but foreigners & legacy of the empire hid this so well

James S Murphy

James_S_Murphy

The Washington Post published this shocking chart today. It's got everything to do with the future of community colleges in the US. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/coronavirus-recession-equality/ Last week,

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

The Parliament today passed the JobKeeper program, a $1,500 per-worker subsidy with a $1,500 wage floor for firms experiencing at least a 30% revenue decline. Some (e.g., @RabeeTourky and @PitchfordRohan)

Ontario's IESO

IESO_Tweets

For demand forecasters, the past is a tool to help plan for the future. The IESO has recorded energy demand data for 60 years, here’s a recap of the last

פרופ' אייל שחר

prof_shahar

1/Sweden mortality in the last two “flu years”:Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 Oct 2019 – Sep 2020Inference from trend over 2 decades. 2/Preliminaries:Annual statistics usually computed by Gregorian calendar.Why? Does

Mukund Thattai

thattai

The so-called Covid “supermodel” commissioned by the Govt of India is fundamentally flawed.Not surprising, since it was built by people who had no clue about epidemiology or public health (the

chesa tartine 💋

_kueller

Chesa Boudin has rapidly become the scapegoat of San Francisco crime. I'm worried about his infamy reaching state and even national levels, because many of these reactionary arguments against him

Max Fisher

Max_Fisher

Some thoughts on what we mean when we talk about "American exceptionalism," and where the concept even comes from, kicked off by @kbennhold's great story on the topichttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/coronavirus-american-e

Gabriel Pogrund

Gabriel_Pogrund

EXC: Here's an overview of Labour Together's inquiry into 2019 election defeat, overseen by MPs incl Ed Miliband, per sourceIt addresses threat posed by Boris Johnson, Labour's relationship with working

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: April 21, 1545. Juan de Villarroel filed the first mining claim at Potosí, in what is now Bolivia. The silver mine in the mountain known

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Plot twist! Unemployment Insurance claims are being released today, *Wednesday*. Here we go. 0/ Another 1.1 million people applied for UI last week, including 778,000 people who applied for regular

Paul Fahey

pjfahey

What could be as proportionately evil as abortion? Thread 1/ The Church teaches that a Catholic may vote for a political candidate who supports a grave intrinsic evil, like abortion,

Matt Brown 💨

mateo_cafe

Product people make great startup investors.Why?Because evaluating an early-stage startup looks a lot like evaluating a new product launch.Time for a thread 1. It's all about the users. Do