#Desirable

Concerning the matter of "re-opening" the country, it's interesting to watch the different approaches in Germany v the USA. In the USA, the debate appears to be quite binary: Reopen,
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This is a meta-example of the Christian exceptionalism in the whole "fake Christians" narrative. The notion that insisting they really are Christians is doing them some kind of favor, or
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every day i wake up, expecting this living nightmare to end, but i am sorry to have to confirm that, yes, topman continues to sell ripped jeans how long has
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Kinda disturbing to me how Snapchat filters went from being a dog to all of these skin whitening, smoothing and slimming filters which promote an unattainable beauty standard and make
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Astrazeneca/Oxford get a poor grade for transparency and rigor when it comes to the vaccine trial results they have reported. This is not like Pfizer or Moderna where we had
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Following up on the conversation starter from Gluckman, Clark & Fyfe (GCF), universal quarantine for arrivals constrains the number of arrivals/day we can handle. So we need to ration that
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The NYC March for *Science* is taking up a position*against* objectivity.https://twitter.com/sciencemarchnyc/status/1259885452301160452 The Critical Social Justice view of objectivity is that it's neither possible nor desirable. These come from p
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The demonization of the 'Best World Music Album' category at the Grammy Awards is actually something unfathomable. It's almost as if everyone is sleeping the same way and hanging their
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In a deceptive software update, @TXInstruments removed a popular feature from its bestselling TI-84 graphing calculators, removing the ability of calculator owners to write and run their own C and
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About 15 years ago, my parents bought a plot of land way on the northwest part of Albuquerque. They were cheap plots & it was an undeveloped area. My dad
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Reminder that the US considered supporting the YPG their last option. Before they even communicated with the YPG on any level there was internal argument over supporting them. While Daesh
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kinda boggles my mind that this pandemic SHOULD be *the* moment for VR, the moment when there's a really obvious global use case. and in this time where that portion
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Guys, it's not just her being muscular.It's her being muscular in a body type women aren't "allowed" to be. Women in fighting games are muscular, no one bats an eye.Bc
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Struck by this from @debmattinson's 'Beyond the Red Wall': "The nod to Trump led to a spontaneous chant of ‘Let’s build a wall'....‘We’ll build a wall around London!’ shouted one
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The law of #contempt has an interesting history. Stemming from medieval England where judges acted with the conferred authority of the King. Hence, any insult, perceived or otherwise, to them
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okay all this album is doing for me is making me want to write a 50k fic about 70s-era monaco where jin guangyao is hustling as a croupier, moonlighting as
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