#Countries

James Clark 📈📉🤷🏼‍♂️

mr_james_c

Good article on the impending problems of Dunning Kruger as applied to "popular maths".https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/1249253689338060800 To be clear, charting like that of the FT *exacerbates* the problem because the assumptions m

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

The best indicator of how poorly the US has handled Covid-19 is that a lot of conservatives are debasing themselves to the level where “look, it’s not *that much* worse

Dr. Lucky Tran

luckytran

Coronavirus cases:US - 1,482,916 Russia - 281,752 United Kingdom - 244,603 Brazil - 235,331 The four countries who are hardest hit by the pandemic are all run by right-wing, authoritarian

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

OMG—We’ve gone from bad to even worse: South Dakota has now overtaken North Dakota, while each smashing record highs—each above 1000/mil. If countries, both would be *Top 5* in world.

Ryan Bourne

MrRBourne

NEW THREAD: For the past couple of months, I’ve seen articles that purport to tell us the **real** lessons behind cross-country differences in performance in regard COVID-19—from “state capacity” right

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coffeejyan

did the wayv members really just get topless in front of the cameras just like that wow it's quite interesting to see the differences between chinese and korean culture... norms

Stanch 24/7

Stanch247

THREAD @Sparty80GoGreen @pvtjokerus1/ WE ARE BEING GASLIGHTED BY DEMOCRATS, THE PARTY OF SYSTEMIC DISHONESTY, THE MEDIA WHO LIES FOR THEM AND EDUCATORS.Gaslighting has become one of the most pervasive and

Shany Mor שני מור شني مور

ShMMor

OK, before the rumor mill spins out of control, I think I should just come clean.I’m the one who wrote that parody article about Israel being responsible for repression in

JWTheSpa

SpaJw

It's really instructive to be following the Covid-19 crisis closely in the UK and Spain. All the same things are happening in both countries, but in both a lot of

Oliver Eastwood 🇨🇦🏈

olivereastwdcfl

I guess the absurd timing of the #CFL Draft for me is just another reason why the UK not good for Canadian sports. The biggest problem for me is that

Phil Vabulas

PhilVabulas

There are competing motions to Green Party conference. One to adopt IHRA, one to actively campaign against it. An advocate of the latter complained that they'd been falsely accused of

Brigadier General

ChiefExo

(1/2) Here's a conundrum: An Artist makes a song and obtains the rights to sample a classic (song x) in the musical composition(song y), and then another artist makes a

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @drtedros saying the pandemic "continues to take a heavy toll on families, communities and nations the world over. But it’s also giving rise to incredible

literally orange

tanyaradzak

Zimbabwe has needed the international attention and social media outcry it’s getting currently for decades. Oppression in Zimbabwe has always been institutionalized, right from colonial rule to post colonial rule.

Matteo Tiratelli

MatteoTiratelli

V-Party data doesn't measure what parties do, or what they say they'll do. It measures what political scientists *think* of each party.665 political scientists were polled in Jan 2020 to

Marcus Vance

MarcusCVance

What are some reasons for swords in sci-fi.Hard mode:Don't mention Dune or keeping the inside of a ship safe since both have have easy workarounds. One reason could be supersoldiers/soldiers