#Theory

The debate about whether cancelling people is good or bad can't be settled because it operates on an ethical theory of either utilitarianism (it has good/bad effects) or rules (bad
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34k died from flu in US last year18k have died from covid-19 in US in *one month*Dinesh D’Souza is always the dumbest man in the roomhttps://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/1248661410323849217 I wish all these
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Status: staring blearily at science advocacy/#scicomm responses to the 5G/Covid-19 myth that rely on explanatory interventions that it's pretty clear from the anti-antivax and other cases *are not persuasive to
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I'm having such big, frustrated feels at the state of inequality in our society around disability and accessibility and how that is making conversations about labor and community building harder
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hi #poliscitwitter can any political theorists help me understand why Harvey Mansfield's "Manliness" is an academic text rather than, as it appears, a combination of some deeply homoerotic fan fiction
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There are basically three theories of this election. We'll soon know which is most accurate. It's possible all of them are true at once, in which case we're in for
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Thread:Britain is a Constitutional Monarchy which means they have a Head of State that is part of the legislative authority together with the House of Lords and the House of
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Hearing a lot of “SBOM is key in things like this #log4j issue” without anyone saying how they might use an SBOM *right now* during this phase of response.Please don’t
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You can talk a million theories about the virus. What should’ve been done, what shouldn’t be done. There are studies that prove any point.But 26 million unemployed isn’t a theory.
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Since there are a lot of people waking up to the danger of critical theory, I think it's important for people to understand how the grift occurs. Please watch &
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There are many things men say and many of those things are not worth repeating or remembering. But on this day, and at this how, there are men who will
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I see why scholars turn towards the term “spirituality.” We have to wrestle with the construction of “religion” as a category birthed from Western colonialism. And, if we’re going to
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westworld presents a paradox: how is it possible for something to be consistently disappointing? does the nature of disappointment not preclude such a thing one issue with any theory dependent
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https://youtu.be/lXhOlaJjQ9I (1/?) I have a theory... given howmany emulation errors there are in Sunshine, maybe Nintendo made the collection limited because they weren’t happy with how it turned out? Like, they’ve
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When tackling #COVID19, why is #intersectionality important? Looking only at associations between deprivation & mortality OR gender and mortality, you miss the steep inequalities experienced by poor women. Perhaps even
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Today's numbers for hospitalizations, ICU and ventilators:Hospitalizations: 912 (-49) ICU: 147 (-6)Ventilators: 119 (-1) Basically, another frustrating day. Another day of more than 400 new cases (5-day average is now
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