#Understanding

Here’s McConnell advancing one of the most pernicious myths about the filibuster: that it promotes moderation. There’s no real evidence this is true. OTOH the filibuster singlehandedly blocked civil rights
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Are there any interviews from after Maurice Sendak came out publicly where he talks about what it was like being a gay children’s book creator in community with other gay
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Am writing to get inputs on an important statistical issue relating to understanding the pandemic. Would like inputs from anyone in the world who has worked on it. It relates
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an actual unpopular opinion:eunbi is more than a nice body and just the leader, she’s an incredible all-rounder idol and performer with amazing vocals, dancing, and visual whose talent has
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Linear roadmaps are misleading without a crystal ball for seeing the future. A roadmap that recognizes the existence of risk as time goes on is more honest. But an effective
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This person’s comments are a prime example of pretension and privilege in action. It’s not pretentious to have a favourite opera but it is to assume anyone who doesn’t wasn’t
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3 days ago my co-founder was taken by SARS in the early hours of the day. He was interrogated and held all day and wouldn’t let him make a call
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When I first started my career, I thought being a stellar software engineer means writing correct, performant, and elegant code, having deep understanding of programming languages & frameworks & operating
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Blended learning: a thread.1/ In August we will probably be returning to school under a blended learning model, with pupils attending part time and doing some of their learning at
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I assume this is a joke, but IMHO, Republicans are genuinely in BIG trouble when kids who are now 10-16—who lack any pre-Trump context re: the GOP—become voters. Not because
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What about thread for studies once get to flooded will get revived with new revision. So v.1 is here.Some basic readingUnderstanding Bestiality and Zoophilia by Hani MiletskiNot so academic but
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My dad enjoyed having a house full of kids. It was just the 2 of us but we always had friends over.When he found out my sister’s friend had a
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I think the important thing to understand about antisemitism as a political factor is that its not coterminous with "Jew hatred", it's a particular type of obsessive preoccupation and fantasy
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For non-coders, a little explanation of why mobile apps from Google, Spotify, Apple, NYT, Venmo, Walmart and many others all broke for a little while this afternoon. (Short version: they
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I did that thing where I was really tired and fell asleep too early and now I'm awake hours before I should be :/ I managed to get a couple
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Also if you want to think ahead (data in PMI charts from July), here are the latest trends of Covid:US cases rolling over, as in peaked a while a go
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