#Skewed

A constant problem with US interlocutors in the Middle East: they project their hopes & goals on the Americans, believe the US has a grand strategy when there isn't one
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Been laying here trying to work out how to put this for over an hour. I have spent the last week feeling absolutely crap because of comments from friends about
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How much water do you think you use a day (across washing, cooking, cleaning etc)? Answer the poll before reading the rest of the thread [1/9] The UK average is,
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1/ Fascinating new internal hospital report from Houston coming soon; the five-word takeaway sums it up.Meantime, @TheAtlantic has some hot panic porn suggesting deaths in the Sunbelt could reach New
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Feeling really emotional lately over the black lives that were recently lost so pardon my candor.To all the white people who think their fears are equal to ours just remember
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As I had promised a few days earlier, this is a thread on portfolio diversification and allocation. Before I start, let me make it clear that this thread is for
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No matter one's views around lockdowns, surely we can all agree that a world in which states are more comfortable to exercise their coercive power to impose house arrest on
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There is no such thing as “objective translations”, but even if there was viz’ wouldn’t be an example. Their history of over Americanisation of texts aside, there have been clear
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I see you guys are still on this Civil war matter.Awo, Gowon, Ojukwu...Laughable.Nobody wants to speak of the ridiculous and downright pettiness of Ahmadu Bello.An individual who claimed to have
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Time after time we're told Ireland is a shining light when it comes to self-ID. Such is the institutional capture, we are frequently deferred to the thoughts of a male
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The thing about growing up basically secluded and with nobody to have an actual fleshed out human relationship (if you know my growing up you know) is Ive held on
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I studied Shakespeare at postgrad. There was one black guy in a class of 6. Everyone kept expecting him to be interested in racial analysis of Shakespeare. He just liked
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For those who want the bottom line up front, this is a staged event. I'll present my reasoning in the thread, but three, or more of these knuckleheads are actors.There
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Did Sargent commission this article for the @washingtonpost from Bezos?!? The "conservative in a Midwest diner" approach to outlier library patrons is so blatantly skewed it's comical. #EbooksForAll https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno
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"In patients with gunshot wounds to the legs, tourniquets applied in the hospital not only didn't help outcomes compared to no tourniquet - they were associated with more deaths."This is
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Alright alright alright, before we go into a weekend that's important for...so many reasons right now...let's talk about the winner of this little game called Taverns of Tiefenthal by @NorthStarGames.But,
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