After reading this, I took my dog on a walk. Near the end of it, a man walking toward us stepped into the gutter to make way for us to pass by. Almost always, I am the one to step into the street. I exchanged pleasantries with him to acknowledge his gesture, and we both walked away smiling.
Vance bitching about "loyalty" and Eileen Gu representing China, but not about all the outsourcing and off-shore tax havens. Such a bold man of principle. 🙄 Also, we pay our Olympic athletes shit compared to other countries, if we pay them at all. She has every right to take a better offer.
What an insane game, congrats US women's hockey!! 🥇
I follow independent journalists on here. Why would you discourage that?
Over the last few years, scientific journals publishers have been reducing editorial staff, increasing paper volume, and charging high author fees. This has led to mass resignations of editors.
There have been at least 20 mass resignations from scientific journals since 2023.
In today’s episode, we explore the reasons behind these resignations and what they mean for the future of scientific publishing.
Listen here 🎧:
https://buff.ly/3Mut28J
I keep thinking about the chocolate rations in Orwell’s 1984.
I thought it was for the Pacific Theater in WWII?
Why have productive discussions about the issues plaguing your citizens, when you can just strategize about how to shape their opinion?
Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws
the guy from the trolley problem meme with text over his head reading "pulling the lever doesn't do anything anymore" and "tear up the tracks"
I was scared those were grapes for a second…
And guess who is the 45th president, starting his part two.
Retain faith in our democracy
#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory
What caused the Great Depression?
Most people would say the stock market crash of 1929. That was probably the No. 1 factor, but the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 made it worse. The act raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods by almost 60%. /1
Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇
Just one guess. 🇺🇸
*Shrugs in Imminent Domain*
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
The welfare state was initially adopted by rulers as a technique to save capitalism and stop socialism by integrating workers into the existing system. But now it is something socialists are desperate to save and expand because the immediate alternative is a total nightmare.
Get him to the vet!
Allah bless us, every one.
Revolution by Grim Reaper?
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
